Malawi Clinics

Thank you for showing interest in the Twinning Project. Meet some of those involved:

Dr Ron Neville

The Project Director, Ron, is a GP partner at Westgate Medical Practice in Dundee. He has worked around the world in his former capacity as co-leader of a WHO Global Asthma Initiative Project and is now at the forefront of efforts to introduce the effective use of e-health technology. He first proposed the idea of ‘twinning’ clinics as a way of closing the gap in inequality of access to good healthcare between the developed and developing world.

Sam Riddell

Sam is the Practice Manager of Westgate Medical Practice. He has oversees logistics expertise from a former career in the Armed Services and has a track record of managing funds, motivating teams and project management.

Pam Wilson

Pam helped initiate the Twinning Project in her former role as Voluntary Services Oversears (VSO) Nurse at Malawi College of Health Sciences, Zomba Campus. The success of the Project today is largely due to Pam’s relentless dedication and her unrivalled experience of the nursing profession in both Zomba, Malawi, and Dundee, Scotland. Read more about Pam’s work in Malawi in her interview on the blog.

Paul Nkhoma

Paul acts as our local co-ordinator. He has given up a great deal of time to conduct a thorough review of clinics in Southern Malawi to ensure that our project is managed well, free of corruption; in line with best practice for governance. He began his working relationship with the people of Scotland through the Edinburgh University Global Partnerships Project.

Jemma Neville

Jemma is the Scottish Communications Manager for the project. She first went to Malawi on a university voluntary project to Chimwankunda Secondary School in Blantyre and has been passionate about the links between Scotland and Malawi ever since. Human rights fieldwork in Africa and the Balkans through the European Inter-University Centre and the United Nations ICTY inspired her to learn more about the use of short film to engage people and institutions in listening to one another.

Sylvester Chawala

Sylvester is the Malawian Communications Manager. He is from Namitete, south of Lilongwe District, and started work at the National Library Service in 1990 and later joined Malawi College of Health Sciences in 2001 as a Librarian. He then went to study Library and Information Science at Mzuzu University. He is looking forward to working closely with all the clinics under the project from both countries and championing good communication between Malawian health workers and their patients and those in Scottish General Practices.

Mrs Lucy Patience Chidothe

Lucy is a Registered Nurse-Midwife trained at Kamuzu College of Nursing, a constituence of the University of Malawi. She has a Bsc Degree in Nursing Education and taught student nurses at Malawi College of Health Sciences-Zomba Campus from 1995 to 2002. Mrs Chidothe has also headed Malawi College of Health Sciences as a Campus Director from 2002 to date. At present Lucy is doing online study with University of South Africa for a Masters degree course in Health Studies. On the Twinning Project Lucy says that MCHS students from Zomba and Blantyre Campuses will benefit much on information from free online journals accessed on Internet during their clinical placements in twinned clinics and can be sharing with their fellow students on internship in Scotland General Practices. She adds that even lecturers as well as clinical instructors stand to benefit a lot when supervising students on internship. Lucy also mentions that she will personally benefit on recent information for her research on Exclusive Breast Feeding. Lucy likes making friends and sharing information, so she would like to make friends with Clinic Managers from both Scottish and Malawian twinned clinics. She spends her free time listening to gospel music among others.

 

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