A desire to build a brighter future for children around the world has brought together doctors from New York and Nepal to expand pediatric emergency medicine training through the AMPATH Nepal partnership.
Two hundred and twenty young adults in need of cardiac surgery primarily due to damage from rheumatic heart disease (RHD) will receive the life-saving surgery over the next two years.
Nurses are leading the way, as they so often do, to improved patient care by working together across all four AMPATH Global partnership locations to identify common challenges, share expertise and support each other.
Leaders of the AMPATH partnership around the world reflect on the values of the AMPATH partnership, what makes it special and their plans for the future. Click on the photos to hear what they have to say.
AMPATH’s partnerships in Ghana, Kenya and Nepal work in different healthcare systems, communities and environments, but all share an increasing prevalence of noncommunicable diseases.
Each month the Sally Test Child Life Program at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya helps more than 4,500 children and their families cope with their mental, emotional and social needs as they face hospitalization and medical procedures.
