Malawi Health Partnership for Childhood Cancer, Myanmar
Country: Myanmar, (Burma)
Key Contact: Professor Tim Eden
World Child Cancer works to improve services for children with cancer and their families in low-middle income countries, including at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. World Child Cancer builds and sustains partnerships between paediatric oncology units in low-middle income countries with those in high-income countries whose staff are able to volunteer to provide training and mentorship in skills that are essential to care for children with cancer.
Since 2007 the paediatric oncology teams led by professor Simon Bailey at Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle and Dr Trijn Israels in the Netherlands (now working at Princess Maxima Centre for Paediatric Oncology) have been working with Professor Molyneux and Dr George Chagaluka and their team in Blantyre to help improve the service. Since 2010, World Child Cancer has been supporting this partnership.
World Child Cancer are also focused on reducing the rate of abandonment of treatment by helping families with treatment and transport costs and enabling follow-up of patients. World Child Cancer support early warning signs and symptoms training for rural health centres to increase the accessibility of cancer diagnosis and treatment for more patients and enable infrastructure improvements in the unit. World Child Cancer recently supported a volunteer counsellor to spend 3 months in Malawi, counselling patients and families and healthcare professionals and also providing training for nurses to continue this work.
World Child Cancer welcome expressions of interest from volunteers trained in a variety of disciplines from medicine and nursing to play therapy and physiotherapy.
Job Title: Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology
Contact: tim.eden@edentob.co.uk
Project Website: World Child Cancer