We are an international team with a common goal to deliver an affordable and life saving radiotherapy service for North West Cameroon.
Our core team consists of the following professions:
Physicians
Radiation Oncologists
Civil Engineers
Medical Physicists
Dosimetrists
Radiotherapy Technologists
Administrators
We have published a paper "Developing a modern radiotherapy department in a rural hospital in Cameroon: The Mbingo experience". This gives a more detailed overview of the early stages of the project.
There are a number of organisations involved in the project, some of whom are listed below (in no particular order):
African Mission Healthcare - has awarded $500,000 for training the staff who will deliver radiation therapy treatments
Medical Physicists in Diaspora for Africa (Mephida. e.V)
North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre - donation of a Varian 2100C/D linear accelerator and spare parts
The Deansley Centre, New Cross Hospital - donation of the baseframe that secures the accelerator precisely to the floor
Lingen Davies Oncology Centre, Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital - donation of spare parts for the linear accelerator
The ANCHOR Centre, Royal Aberdeen Infirmary - donation of medical physics QA equipment (IBA water tank) and spare parts
HCA Healthcare, University College Hospital, London - donation of medical physics equipment (PTW Octavius and 2D array)
The Harley Street Clinic, London - donation of electrometers and ionisation chambers