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April 2017

by Christian Leuner

German female Angiologist reports about her stay in Mekelle March 2017

The experienced internist and angiologist from Münster, Dr. Elisabeth van der Laan, repots about her first information visit to the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle from 18 to 24 March 2017.

Dr van der Laan in front of the pediatric cardiology in Ayder Hospital 2017

 

In addition to initial training courses, she gathered important information for further cooperation in the field and summarized it in her report.

Dr. Van der Laan during sonography in Ayder 2017

The most important points from her report:

  1. The establishment of a angiological department is due to the patient population necessarily desirable
  2. The investigations could already begin with the available equipment from a technical point of view
  3. Existing equipment requires maintenance, repair and batteries
  4. Personnel / professional requirements still have to be created

She was very pleased with the great interest in her training in the field of angiology from the numerous young medical colleagues.

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