BY S KWAGALA
Two Oncology experts in cancer treatment have been honoured by the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) after winning an international award of excellence in cancer care.
The win was declared from a South Korea training program and the excellent representatives are Dr. Martin Origa a Gynecologic oncologist and Dr. Solomon Owino a biomedical engineer.
These have been honoured by being shortlisted by the UCI to go to South Korea under the support of the Korean Foundation for International Health to get skilled in different aspects of cancer care.
With such a partnership established, UCI has over 4O doctors trained in south Korea to improve the management the treatment of cancer patients in the country.
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Dr. Solomon Owino a biomedical engineer said that while in South Korea he completed with 12 participants from seven countries; Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopian Mongolia, Cambodian among others.
Owino reported that while on the program, together with his colleagues, they were assigned to develop a simple medical devices like contactless temperature monitoring where he performed excellently.
Dr. Nixon Niyonzima the head of research and training at UCI stressed that due to overwhelming numbers of patients seeking cancer care at UCI, there is demand for highly qualified personnel.
“We have more equipments we need more engineers as a department currently we have three biomedical engineers and all these need to be trained and equiped and also we need five more biomedical engineers”. Dr. Niyonzima stated.
Meanwhile, the UCI have now started a training program in Gynecological oncology to increase the number of personnels highly qualified like Dr. Origa.
Jackson Orem the Executive Director UCI mentioned that the institute is looking for such collaborations in different fields so that they can build capacity locally.