Milestones

 
 

2012 - 2013

  • Operational Standards in Burn Care in Low and Middle Income Countries adopted.

  • MoU with Nepal Burn Society.

  • Advanced Nursing Training at Choithram Hospital, Indore, India.

  • Training at Corus Hospital, Uganda.

  • Essential Burn Care (EBC) training with Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

  • DFID funds programmes in Bangladesh and Nepal.

 

2014

  • Nursing Training at Interburns Training Centre (ITC) India and the National Institute of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • Kathmandu to Dhaka fundraising motor bike journey.

  • Essential Burn Care (EBC) Assam, India.

 

2015

  • Advanced Burn Care (ABC) Rehab, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • Assessment for National Strategy, Ethiopia.

  • Nursing training in Cote d’Ivoire .

  • Burn training developed for nurses in Africa and Asia.

  • EBC delivered in Bangladesh.

  • ABC (Nursing) developed.

 

2016

  • Partnership with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP); training in the West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories..

  • Interburns nurses win Edith Cavell Nursing Prize .

  • Training for staff at Indira Ghandi Institute of Child Health, Kabul, Afghanistan.

  • Interburns Director, Tom Potokar awarded O.B.E for services to burns in low resource settings.

 

2017

  • Training for WHO staff in conflict zones in Idlib Province, Northern Syria.

  • Practical guidelines and checklists developed.

  • ABC Nursing, Ghana.

  • Training in Hebron and Nablus, OPT.

  • Nutrition Fellowships at ITC India; ABC Nepal.

  • Award of NIHR grant in partnership with the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy and Research (CGBIPR).

2018

  • Basic Burn Care (BBC) developed.

  • ABC (Surgery) developed.

  • Local staff deliver training in Ethiopia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi, OPT.

  • ABC (Surgery) delivered in Nepal.

 

2019

  • ABC (Nursing) Ethiopia.

  • DFID grant to improve burn care in Ethiopia.

  • Implementation Science Workshop for Malawi and Ethiopia.

  • Wales for Africa funds burn nurses in Malawi.

 

2020

  • ABC (Surgery) Ethiopia

  • Publication of ‘Comprehensive, Integrated Approach’.

  • Burn prevention projects in Nepal, Ethiopia and OPT.

 

2021

  • Three modules of ABC(Nursing) online.

  • Digital DAT developed at www.dat4burns.org

  • Grant to support organisational development from the Choithram International Foundation.

  • Support to Sierra Leone burn disaster.

  • EBC delivered online for UK Med.

 

2022

  • CEO hired

  • EBC and BBC ToT Tanzania

  • EU Burn Assessment Team (BAT) training

  • EBC online with UK Med

 

2023

  • ABC (Nursing), Tanzania.

  • ABC (Rehabilitation), Ghana.

  • EBC delivered in French in Senegal in partnership with ISBI.

  • Basic and Essential Burn Care in Nepal.

  • ABC (Nursing), Abu Dhabi.

  • Provincial training programme, Madhya Pradesh, India.

  • Quality Improvement for Nurses, Tanzania.

  • Rehabilitation for Burn Patients, Pakistan, in collaboration with PILL and Manchester University.

  • Film making collaboration with Global Health Media.

  • Formal partnership with ISBI.

  • Growth of Interburns Board of Trustees.