News – Capacare

Disability is not inability – Mr. Education

Edward Kamara, known by his nickname “Mr.Education” is a familiar face to anyone that has visited Masanga. Known for his infectious laugh and uncompromising work ethic, he is usually found [...]

Håkon Bolkan on Capacare

15 minutes with Dr. Håkon Bolkan on surgery in Sierra Leone, task-sharing and CapaCare (Surgical Symposium, Copenhagen 2018)

The Surgical Assistant CHO

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 [...]

MD thesis in Sierra Leone

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 [...]

Basic surgical skills

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 [...]

Global Health Day 2017

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 [...]

Addressing Surgical Needs Where there is No Surgeon

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 [...]

Graduation 2017

Head of the Masanga Rehabilitation Project Dr. Peter Bo and Chairman of CapaCare Dr. Håkon Bolkan presents SACHO Amara Conteh with his diploma. Capacare´s Surgical Training Program has come [...]

Introduction to surgery

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 [...]

Christopher B. Lynch back in Masanga

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 [...]