- Start Date - 22/04/2013
- End Date - 17/05/2013
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- Location - Concourse, 123 St. Stephen's Green
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An exhibition of photos by Ugandan photographer Daudi Sseggabala and Irish journalist Niamh Griffin documenting a visit to surgeons being trained as part of an Irish collaboration programme in Uganda, is currently on display in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 until 17th May. The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9am to 5pm Monday – Saturday.
Niamh travelled to Uganda in September 2012 to see, first-hand, the work being done by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) collaboration programme. Her story and photographs featured in the Irish Times newspaper.
The exhibition features photographs taken in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, as well as Gulu, a city in the north of the country. Gulu has been hard hit by conflict; it is the major city in the region most affected by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army led by Joseph Kony. In 2001 St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Gulu was the only institution which cared for victims of Ebola outbreak which led to the deaths of 13 nurses and doctors. Also photographed was Mulago hospital in Kampala, made famous by the film The Last King of Scotland. Both of these hospitals are COSECSA accredited training hospitals and are supported by RCSI through this collaboration programme.
COSECSA is the regional surgical training college for ten countries across East, Central and Southern Africa, an area with a population approaching 300 million. The RCSI/COSECSA programme is funded by Irish Aid and is particularly active in training surgical trainers in various disciplines, provision of IT labs, examination support, capacity building and online surgical training & other training material within COSECSA.
Niamh Griffin’s trip was supported by the Simon Cumbers Media fund. This fund honours the memory of Irish journalist and cameraman Simon Cumbers who was killed while filming a report for BBC Television News in Saudi Arabia. The aim of the Fund is to assist and promote more and better quality media coverage of development issues in the Irish media.
For further information visit www.rcsi.ie/ugandaphotos