SURGEONS IN ACTION (AC) CAMPAIGN CALENDAR IN 2024
In 2022, campaigns resumed after the COVID pandemic. The situation in 2023 was normalised and campaigns were conducted from March onwards. THE CALENDAR of campaigns planned for this year 2024 is as follows:
1. 2-11 FEBRUARY Campaign to Gpholu City, Liberia (HI): COMPLETED.
Team leader: Antonio Satorras
General Surgeons: Antonio M Satorras, María Quirós, Mónica Torres, Estefanía Villalobos.
Paediatric Surgeon: Carlos Delgado, Sara Ramallo
Anaesthesiologists: Pilar Murga, Rocio Diez, M Laura Baumgartner
Nurse: M Jesús Nieto, Mónica Ruiz Maleno, Lucia Corrales
12 VOLUNTEERS
2. 11-17 MARCH. Campaign to Sierra Leone- Police Hospital, Freetown (HI) COMPLETE
Team Leader Sebastian Fdez Arias (cancelled Dec. 2023)
General Surgeons: Lucia Catot, Sebastian Fdez Arias, Elisabeth Julia Verdaguer, Rodrigo Medrano.
Anaesthesiologists: Carmen Belmonte Cuenca, Ester Mora Azabal
Nurses: Samuel Jimenez
7 VOLUNTEERS
3. 5-15 MARCH Serekunda Hospital Campaign,Kanifing LGA, GAMBIA (HI) -adults COMPLETE
Team leader: Eduardo Perea del Pozo
General Surgeons: Eduardo Perea, Manuel Bustos, Abdul Razak Munchef,
Anaesthesiologists: Ordoño Rodrigo Alonso Tuñon, Alejandra Abasolo Ibañez
Nurses: Maria del Mar Martínez Gómez, Daniel Luis Nadales Muñoz
Surgery Residents: Carlos Javier García Sanchez, Angela de Jesus Gil
9 VOLUNTEERS
4. 27 February- 6 March: Maternal & Child Bundung Hospital, Serekunda GAMBIA (ASEDA): CHILDREN. FULL
Team leader: Rosa Romero
Paediatric surgeons: Rosa Maria Romero Ruiz, M Angeles Muñoz Miguelsanz, Teresa Inmaculada Ruiz Jimenez, Maria Carolina Mójica Salamanca(R5), Rosa Maria Caello Laureano.
Anaesthesiologists: Alvaro Jose Sepulveda Iturzaeta, Marta Garcia Santigosa, Blanca Mtez-Dueñas López Marin.
Digestive Appt: María Muñoz Garcia Borruel
Nurses: Débora Moreno Borrego, Rocio Sanjusto Bravo, Rosa M Soldevilla Rodriguez, Maria Ortiz Polan.
13 VOLUNTEERS
5. 26 March-5 April: Ulongüe Campaign Mozambique
Team leader: Lucia Catot
General Surgeons: Lucia Catot
Paediatric surgeons:
Anaesthesiologists
Internist: Helena Sarmento
Nurses:
Translator/logistician: Vitor Lamosa
VOLUNTEERS.
6. 26 April-5 May. Campaign to Sierra Leone- Police Hospital, Freetown (HI)
Team Leader Ana Gay
General Surgeons: Ana Gay
Anaesthesiologists:
Nurses:
7 VOLUNTEERS.
7. DATE Campaign in Benin Hosp. Redeeming Love Hostel. Dangbo.
Team leader: David Fernández Luengas
General surgeons: David F Luengas, Ana Gay, Fátima Sánchez-Cabezudo, Sandra del Barrio.
Anaesthesiologists
Nurses: Nuria Agulló
VOLUNTEERS.
JUNE Campaign in Yaounde Cameroon (CMS Cardio Reval), Children (A Onana Foundation.
Team leader: Javier Mora
Paediatric Surgeons:
Javier Mora Anaesthesiologists.
Nurses:
VOLUNTEERS
9. 25 October – 6 November: Maternal &Child Bundung Hospital Campaign, Serekunda, GAMBIA (A
Team leader: Eloisa Diaz Moreno
Pediatric surgeons: Carlos Cadaval Gallardo, Carmen Botía Martínez, Rocío Vizcaíno Pérez, Constanza Valenzuela López, Eloísa Díaz Moreno
Anesthesiologists: Felisa Marín Hernández, Rosario Picón Mesa, Delia Acosta García
Nurses: Cristina Jiménez Ponce, Maria del Rosario Gil Muñoz, Maria Soledad Bueno Piñeiro, Ismael Shahrour Romera
Logistics: Jose Bañuelos León
VOLUNTEERS: 13
10. OCT-DEC Campaign Serekunda Hospital, Kanifing. Gambia (HI):
Team Leader: Arturo Cruz
General Surgeons:
Children’s Surgeons:
Anaesthesiologists
Nursing:
VOLUNTEERS
11. 25 October – 6 November Campaign in Yaounde Cameroon (CMS Cardio Reval), (A Onana Foundation). Adults – FULL
Team Leader: Manuel Cires
General Surgeons: M Cires, Carlota Tuero, Estefania Villalobos
Anaesthetists: Maria Remon, Fabiola Ortega
Nurses Marisa Hernando, Lola Garcia
7 VOLUNTEERS
12. DATE Ilioni Medical Centre. Lichinga, Mozambique (signed agreement)
DELAYED 2024
Team leader: César Ramírez
General Surgeons:
Paediatric Surgeon?
Anaesthesiologists: 3
Nurse: 4
13. DATE: Gatundu Kenya (HI).
Team Leader: Pending
General Surgeons:
Paediatric Surgeon:
Anaesthesiologists:
Paediatric Intensivist:
Nurses:
Volunteers
14 June-July: Campaign in Peru Hospital Regional Callao. Abdominal wall pathology (Campaign offered from Gobierno Regional del Callao, Dr. Ciro Castillo).
Team leader:
General Surgeons:
Anaesthesiologists: Pilar Murga
Nurses: Pepa Fornier
8 VOLUNTEERS Tickets
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NO DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT:
AUGUST -SEPTEMBER- BRAZIL -HI
Team leader:
General Surgeons: Teresa Butrón
Maxillofacial Cir. Maxillofacial
Anaesthesiologists:
Nurses:
7 VOLUNTEERS.
DATE: Korogwe Tanzania (HI) Campaign ???
Team Leader:
General Surgeons:
Anaesthesiologists, ,
Nurses:
VOLUNTEERS
NOTE_ VOLUNTEERS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MOST OF THEIR OWN TRAVEL, SUBSISTENCE AND LIVING EXPENSES.
Volunteers should bear the major part of their travel, accommodation and living expenses.
They can do events or apply for grants for the campaigns they are going to and thus help to finance them.