PaedSurg Africa is a multi-centre research collaboration of surgeons, anaesthetists and allied health professionals undertaking neonatal and paediatric surgery throughout sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Collectively, the collaboration has produced the largest prospective cohort study of paediatric surgery in this region of the world. The protocol may be found here. The full study manuscript has been published in BMJ Global Health and is available for download here.
The primary aim was to compare the outcomes of five common neonatal and paediatric surgical conditions between SSA and high-income countries.
Data was collected between October 2016 to April 2017 on five conditions (gastroschisis, anorectal malformation, appendicitis, inguinal hernia and intussusception). This involved 220 collaborators from 76 hospitals in 23 countries collecting data on 1407 children.
It has since been presented (and will continue to be presented) at numerous conferences across the world.
For a collaborator perspective of PaedSurg Africa, visit our blog to read about the experiences of Dr. Nurudeen Abdulraheem (Nigeria) and Dr. Theophilus Teddy (Ghana).
| When | Presenter, Name (institution) | Conference |
|---|---|---|
| July 2016 - April 2017 | All collaborators | Presentations by collaborators to their local teams |
| July 2016 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) Conference, Amsterdam |
| September 2016 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) & PaedSurg Africa Collaborators | Pan-African Paediatric Surgical Association (PAPSA) Conference, Lagos, Nigeria |
| October 2016 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) Conference, Washington, USA |
| October 2016 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons (WOFAPS) Conference, Washington, USA |
| December 2016 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) & PaedSurg Africa Collaborators | College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) Conference, Mombasa, Kenya |
| December 2016 | Nurudeen Abdulraheem (University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria) | Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) International Research Webinar |
| March 2017 | Elizabeth Ogboli-Nwasor (Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria) | West African College of Surgeons (WACS) Conference, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| April 2017 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | Global Surgical Frontiers (GSF) Conference, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, UK |
| June 2017 | Riikka Valjakka (Boroma Regional Hospital, Somaliland) | Finnish Paediatric Surgical Association Conference, Finland |
| June 2017 | Hope Phiri (Lusaka University Teaching Hospital, Zambia) | Physician and Non-Physician Anaesthesia Conference, Lusaka, Zambia |
| July 2017 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) Conference, London, UK |
| August 2017 | Nurudeen Abdulraheem (University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria) | World Congress of Surgery (WCS), Basil, Switzerland *** This was the first presentation of the results, prior to this presentations were of the study concept to recruit collaborators. |
| September 2017 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN) Conference, Lusaka, Zambia |
| October 2017 | Naomi Wright (King's College London) | World Anaesthesia Society (WAS) Seminar, London, UK |
| November 2017 | Amarylis Mapurisa (on behalf of Emma Thompson), Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi | Malawi Research Dissemination Conference |
| December 2017 | Professor Stephen Tabiri (Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana, West Africa) | Ghana Surgical Research Society in collaboration with Ghana College of Surgeons, West African College of Surgeons and International College of Surgeons at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons |
| December 2017 | Sinkeet Ranketi (Tenwek Hospital, Kenya) | College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) Conference, Maputo, Mozambique |
| January 2018 | Jacques Fadhili Bake (HEAL Africa Hospital, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo) | Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) Conference, Vellore, India |
| March 2018 | Omolara Williams (Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria) | West African College of Surgeons (WACS) Conference, Banjul, The Gambia |
| March 2018 | Charles Carapinha (Johannesburg) | C4K (Clinicians for Kids) Meeting, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| May 2018 | Theophilus Teddy Kojo Anyomih (Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana) | InciSioN Global Surgery Conference, Leuven, Belgium |
| May 2018 | Luc Malemo (HEAL Africa Hospital, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo) | Bethune Round Table for Global Surgery, Toronto, Canada |
| July 2018 | Theophilus Teddy Kojo Anyomih (Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana) | Extreme Affordability Conference, Ghana |
| July 2018 | Naomi Wright (King’s College London, UK) | British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) Conference, Liverpool, UK (PaedSurg Africa won the President’s Prize). |
| August 2018 | Nayha Gautam (East London, South Africa) | South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons (SAAPS) Conference, Pretoria, South Africa |
| September 2018 | Theophilus Teddy Kojo Anyomih (Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana) | Medical Knowledge Fiesta 2018. Rethinking medical education to meet contemporary health care needs. Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ridge, Accra |
| September 2018 | Lofty-John Chukwuemeka (Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria) | Association of Paediatric Surgeons of Nigeria (APSON) Conference, Kano, Nigeria |
| October 2018 | Rashmi Kumar (Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya) | Swami Rama Himalayan University, Uttarakhand, India |
| November 2018 | Stella Eguma (University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria) | Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. |
| November 2018 | Helle Moustapha (Naimey National Hospital, Niger) | African Society of Pediatric Surgery (SACP), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. |
| November 2018 | Kokila Lakhoo (Korle-bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana) | Pan-African Paediatric Surgical Association (PAPSA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| November 2018 | Mulewa Mulenga (University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia) | National Anaesthetic Conference, Lusaka, Zambia |
| November 2018 | Hansraj Mangray (Greys Hospital, South Africa) | International Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Healthcare Conference, Cape Town, South Africa |