This year’s Fellowship Award Winner Miss Lulu Ritchie travelled to Tanzania with the donated KARL STORZ equipment. She set it up there and together with Prof. David Howard (a Founding Member of AGA-ENT who has been teaching in Moshi, Tanzania, for years and greatly facilitated AGA-ENT’s efforts in Tanzania) she taught the local surgeons using the new set of oesophagoscopes and equipment for foreign body removal, in addition to the equipment brought to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in August 2018. The KCMC is an approximately 400-bedded hospital with an estimated catchment population of 15 million people. Any global health interventions here therefore make a palpable impact on health equality in Tanzania. In this area foreign body ingestion requiring surgical removal is very common and the team did not have the appropriate equipment to deal with this before. The visit in August 2018 and in November 2019 and the donation of the equipment greatly facilitated the training of the local surgical team and the overall surgical care in this area.
Miss Ritchie was the third AGA-ENT KARL STORZ fellowship winner and brought new equipment which was kindly donated by KARL STORZ. She was joined by Mr. Andrew Lau, the 2018 AGA-ENT – KARL STORZ fellowship winner, who has driven forward his work there.