The village university: Delegating life-saving skills to non-doctors
We learn better when feeling confident and at home. The Village University is a rural makeshift training center set up where poverty, wars and mines are chronic.
- The students are carefully selected locals.
- The quality of teaching is equivalent to university level.
- The focus is problem-shooting – not academic exercises.
True: The South educates more doctors and nurses than ever. Still the gap between health workers available and needed increases due to systematic and intentional brain-drain to the North.
True: Most rural hospitals in the rural South are staffed with medical officers – not doctors.
False: Only qualified doctors can do surgery.
False: Only health professionals can run trauma systems.