MoU signed in Nepal

We are delighted to have signed an MOU with the Nepal Burn Society which will lay the basis for long term collaborative work in the country including developing an assessment tool based on the Standards for Burn Services, and further EBC and TOT training to local professionals. The recent training team included Shobha Chamania, Shariq Ali, Anirban Mandal, Rajeswari Dharmarajan, Bhupendra Sarma, RuthAnn Fanstone and Shakeel Rahman with local team members including Nara Devi Bariya, Shankar Rai, Ishwar Lohani, Ramana Rajkarnikar and Poonam Pandey, among others.

Over 3 days of training at Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital and Kirtipur Hospital, the team taught 52 healthcare staff in Essential Burn Care along with 23 trained as future EBC instructors.

The assessment team of Sian Falder, Tom Potokar, R.P. Chaudhary and Jeremy Holland, began to develop an assessment and quality improvement tool to enable health facilities to assess themselves against the Standards and improve the level of care they provide. The team also met with WHO and DFID to discuss the forthcoming project to implement the Standards in Nepal.

Particular thanks are due to our friends and colleagues in Nepal for their hard work in making the arrangements for the training, assessment and the launch event with Nepal Burn Society.