NOVEMBER 2024
 Read reports from Steve Payne's scoping visit to St. Paul's Hospital  in Addis Ababa, Will Finch's and Matt Trail's stone workshop in Hawassa, and Shekhar Biyani's Emergency Urology Bootcamp carried out in association with colleagues from the Urology Society of Ethiopia (USE) in November 2024. Prof. Masresha Soloman has clarified how Urolink can help in Addis, Matt and Will carried out 11 PCNLs in 4 days and Shekhar's siumulation-based bootcamp taught 11 residents how to manage common urological surgical emergencies. Both Will and Matt have written about how mid-career and early years consultants can help with Urolink projects.
Read Steve's scoping report
Read the report from the Hawassa PCNL workshop
Read Will's mid-career Urolink experience
AUGUST 2024
 Read Danielle Whiting’s report about her TUF Fellowship to KCMC  for the first percutaneous nephrolithotomy workshop, between 1 and 12 July 2024. Dani emphasises the difficulties there are in bringing higher tech procedures into an LMIC healthcare environment, and the clinical challenges that await their application. She also experienced, in the raw, the differences there are between what we all expect within the NHS and what is available in circumstances that are even more resource depleted. Dani’s report is a great example of the benefits of a TUF fellowship to urologists at the beginning of their careers.
Read Dani's report
AUGUST 2024
 We would like to congratulate Professor Aberra Gobezie on the award of two lifetime awards. One from Hawassa University and another from the Urology Society of Ethiopia (USE). Prof Gobezie was instrumental in the initial setup of the Hawassa University Comprehensive Surgical Hospital (HUCSH), and for forming the association with Shekhar Biyani. This has led to the long-standing association between HUCSH and Urolink, the development of a comprehensive urology team and improvement of urological training in the Southern Nations. Many congratulations Prof!
View images of the award cermonies
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