Kagando’s first Surgical Trainee

6 weeks ago Kagando was accredited as a training centre by the College of South, Central and East Africa (www.COSECSA.org). Last Saturday we enlisted our first candidate, David Mutiibwa for the 2-year course in basic, but very wide ranging surgery.

David is a voracious worker, who can do 5 caesarian sections during a night on-call, followed by a 3-hour ward round, several major and minor surgeries, interspersed with a dozen surgical outpatients without blinking. Back in September I found him tackling removal of a ruptured spleen, single-handed just a month after registering as a doctor!

We get on well, and I greatly look forward to the next 2 years being one of his joint mentors.

Stop press our consultant paediatrician resigned suddenly, and we urgently need to recruit a replacement.