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Mozambique

Consultant Neurologist, Ipswich Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK; Hadi.Manji@uclh.org

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I have just returned from my second visit to Beira in Mozambique where I have been teaching neurology at the new medical faculty of the Universidade Catolica de Mocambique (table 1). The medical school was set up in 2000 to remedy the desperate shortage of doctors in the country (table 2). The first 18 graduates from the school qualify in July 2007. There is a close link with Ipswich Hospital in the UK where I work (the Ipswich-Beira Health Initiative, a registered charity established by Dr John Day, a retired physician from Ipswich, who now plays a key role in the development of the school with regular three-monthly visits). Apart from myself, paediatricians, accident and emergency consultants, orthopaedic surgeons, and nurse specialists from Ipswich have also spent time there. There is a great deal of local enthusiasm in Ipswich for this project with money being raised through, for . . . [Full text of this article]

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