MONROVIA-Tuesday hosted an interactive discussion board for over 100 Liberian well being practitioners to recruitcandidates for greater than 75 fully-funded scholarships in vital medical specializations. The session, held on the A. M Kyne Collegiate Useful resource Heart on the William V. S. Tubman Excessive College in Sinkor, Monrovia, supplied detailed info on the scholarship packages,
together with out there specializations, eligibility necessities, and utility procedures. Supplied by the Merck Basis in partnership with the Workplace of the First Girl and the Ministry of Well being, these scholarships are a cornerstone of the federal government’s effort to construct a complicated and resilient healthcare system for Liberia.
The fully-funded packages, which vary from three months to 1 12 months, will likely be performed each on-line and on-campus at main universities in the UK and India. To be eligible, candidates should be Liberian well being practitioners with the requisite educational credentials and a proper suggestion from the Workplace of the First Girl and the Ministry of Well being.
The ultimate collection of candidates will likely be communicated by the MERCK FOUNDATION upon receiving an acceptance letter from the varsity and a canopy suggestion letter from the workplace of the First Girl and the MOH.
For medical doctors, the scholarships cowl a variety of high-demand fields. These embrace varied areas of Oncology, akin to medical, pediatric, gynecological, surgical, and radiation oncology, in addition to breast surgical procedure, ache and palliative medication, pathology, interventional radiology, and head and neck surgical procedure.
Different out there specialties embrace reproductive medication and embryology, diabetology and hypertension, pediatric cardiology and endocrinology, vital care, neurosurgery, rheumatology, backbone surgical procedure, geriatrics, infectious ailments, stroke medication, household medication, cardiology, pediatrics, girls’s well being, urology, and gastroenterology.
For nurses and technicians, packages can be found in oncology nursing, radiation technician coaching, laboratory technician packages, and oncology analysis and cytoscreener coaching. The appliance course of commenced instantly following the discussion board. and certified candidates have been requested to submit their up to date resumes to the Workplace of the First Girl.
Alphonso Toweh
Has been within the occupation for over twenty years. He has labored for a lot of worldwide media shops together with: West Africa Journal, Africa Week Journal, African Observer and did occasional reporting for CNN, BBC World Service, Sunday Occasions, NPR, Radio Deutchewells, Radio Netherlands. He’s the present correspondent for Reuters
He holds first MA with honors in Worldwide Relations and a candidate for second grasp in Worldwide Peace research and Battle Decision from the College of Liberia.
