Dorset Global Health Network: Focus on Nepal

Event Information

Schedule

6.30 Nepalese buffet dinner

7.00 Short presentations

7.30 Film ‘Hospital’

8.30 Summary and discussion of development of Dorset Global Health Network

Short presentations:

Voluntourism in Nepal: A lesson in the grey areas of global health.

Dr Emer Forde, GP

The challenge of perinatal mental health in Nepal

Dr Edwin van Teijlingen: Professor of reproductive health research, Bournemouth University

Supporting training and innovative solutions to the provision of rural health care in Nepal

Dr Ollie Ross, Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist and Intensivist, Southampton General Hospital

Consultant to Nick Simons Institute

Hospital, Directed by Kesang Tseten, introduced by Dr Ollie Ross

An intimate portrait of a state-run hospital in one of Nepal’s most remote and poorest districts of Kalikot in West Nepal. For medical personnel, it is the kind of posting that is to be avoided or to quickly escape from. In capturing the daily goings-on of the hospital, the film shows how individuals can make a real difference to people’s lives. In addition to showing how the hospital cares for the sick, the film offers a revealing glimpse into how ordinary Nepalis cope with their lot, without drama, and with humanity and humour, at the same time laying bare some of the grimmer fissures of Nepali social reality.

The Dorset Global Health Network is a new group established to provide a forum for people interested in global health to meet, exchange ideas and experience. This event has been organised by the Dorset Primary Care Workforce Centre (PCWC) in collaboration with Bournemouth University (BU Global) and Wessex Global Health Network.