Ngwelezana Hospital receive top award
Doctors awarded MEC's Annual Service Excellence Award for 2014/2015.
ANAESTHETISING patients safely for life saving procedures is a top priority for the Department of Anaesthesia at Ngwelezana Hospital.
This was recognised, when the department received an award at the MEC’s Annual Service Excellence Award for 2014/2015 last month.
A programme called the Safe Anaesthesia Project earned the award for Service Excellence Through Innovation and Best Practice.
The project is the brain child of Head of Department of Anaesthesia for Region 4, Dr Selina Sewpersad.
Before coming to Ngwelezana Hospital Dr Sewpersad worked as a specialist anaesthesiologist in the United Kingdom for six years.
She strives to base her work and that of her team on the standards she worked for in the UK.
The Safe Anaesthesia Project was launched at the Protea Hotel in Empangeni in May, for doctors for Region 4, as part of an ongoing effort to meet the National Health Initiative in reducing Maternal morbidity and mortality.
The high level skills transfer project is aimed at bringing non-specialists to the level of a junior specialist of UK Staff grade doctor.
Ultimately, the teaching will strive to make anaesthetics safer and more efficient, thus saving lives.
