Alieu F. Mansaray graduated from the Surgical Training Program in 2015 and is currently posted at the Serabu Mission Hospital in Southern Province. The past two weeks he has been [...]

The medical study curriculum at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology includes the completion of a student thesis during the 5th study year. Individually or in cooperation, the medical [...]

Sigrun Aase Holen is a norwegian theater nurse with more than 20 years of experience and she just returned from her 5th training mission to Sierra Leone with Capacare.  Along [...]

On the 24th of October the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, St.Olavs Hospital and Central Norway Regional Health hosted the 8th annual Global Health Day in Trondheim. The seminar [...]

On the 1st of September CapaCare-cofounder Dr. Håkon Bolkan defended his PhD-thesis “Addressing surgical needs where there is no surgeon”. The Phd is the culmination of six years of research [...]

In April a new class of STP-students arrived in Massanga. They have all been selected on the basis of a interview conducted by our national board in Sierra Leone and [...]

Back in 2015, one of our STP-graduates, Alpha Mohamed Samura, contacted Professor Christopher Balogun-Lynch after a successful uterine tamponade procedure using the “B-Lynch suture”. Professor B. Lynch is a retired [...]

Based on figures by the Lancet Commission on global surgery, under a best case scenario of equal distribution there are only around three female surgeons for every one million people [...]

On the 3rd of October we welcomed new STP-students into our program. They will begin their basic surgery training in Masanga, before being placed at one of our partner hospitals [...]