Auteursarchief: Pieter van den Hombergh

Rotating in Social and community medicine & palliative care at Partners in Health (Rwanda)

The PM-fund subsidized this project.
A heartwarming, impressive project was realised.
Read the reports by Dr. Claudine Abibeshy.
She is Ass. lecturer Social & Community Medicine
Dep. Primary Healthcare, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Rwanda.
She wrote three reports on the rotation:

1. Introduction to PIH and Community Health oriented project.
2. UR Medical students’ supportive supervision Report- Palliative Care Rotation at Butaro
– Clinical Exposure and Observation: To follow students during their clinical visits with palliative care
– Reflective Sessions and Emotional Support:
– Supportive supervision:
3. Program of the rotation Challenges and Recommendations

Communication Course 2023 in Moi

Marianne Holtland and Pieter van den Hombergh were invited to organise a 5 day course in communication skills in March this year. Family Medicine- trainees from different FM-training institutes in Kenya attended this course. Hans & Marianne Bakker-Holtland gave a similar course “The clinician as a teacher” before COVID broke out. Kabarak and Maseno University sent seven and three FM-registrars, while four came from Moi University. In total 14 registrars attended.
The PM-fund provided the money (2500,-) for travel, housing as well as meals and conference room costs. It was a great success and we got many very positive reactions.
Click for a report with the pictures

Registrars from Moi, Kabarak and Masseno University

Adam Lagro overleden

Op 22 oktober 2022 overleed Adam op 81 jarige leeftijd na een kort ziekbed.
Met zijn ervaring als huisarts en later directeur van het ziekenhuis in Heerlen heeft hij als secretaris jarenlang het bestuur met raad en daad bijgestaan. Hij heeft succesvol fondsen weten aan te boren en zijn positieve instelling en huisartsenhart maakten hem geliefd in het bestuur.
Zo herinneren we hem.

Gift by the heirs of Jacobus Bakkers

We want to thank (the heirs of) Jacobus Bakkers, who suddenly died in 2020. Jacobus worked from 1976 -1981 in Kilgoris Kenya as a tropical doctor. As a radiologist he went on many mission to teach and improve the radiology in Africa.
The heirs honoured his life long commitment to provide care to people in Africa by granting the yield of the auction of his artistic creations (sculptures, pictures, paintings, etc.) to the Peter Manschot Fund. We also thank the Zelhem gallery for organising the exhibition of his work and the sale of his artefacts.
Jacobus believed very much in training physicians with comparable skills as the tropical doctors in the past. This gift is very welcome to enable us to continue our projects in Africa. We consider it an honour to spend the money in the spirit of the late Peter Manschot to boost training of young physicians in the principles of Family Medicine.

Dr Patrick Chege died


We just received the message from the Moi University School of Medicine, that Dr. Patrick Chege passed on due to COVID the 10th of April.
He was the Chair of the Department in Family Medicine, Medical Education, and Community Health.
The news came from Dr. James Akiruga. 
The PM-fund members are very sad and condole his family, friends and colleagues.

Below you see how the number of FPs grew. This was a workshop of the KAFP in Baringo in 2011. Chege is behind the black bag (first row}.

Current status of FM in Kenya

This is a recent paper on FM in Kenya. It also shows the impact of what has been achieved. The PM-fund has financially contributed to this result.

Family physicians have different ideas of how FM should look like ideally, but all agree that family physicians should be team leaders of a primary healthcare team, taking care of a defined population.
64% of the participants work in rural areas and 77% perceive their current work as FM. Read the paper


Hoe kan ik doneren?

Giften komen vooral van donateurs of zijn eenmalige giften uit inzamelingen bij een bijzondere gebeurtenis. Ook steunen Huisartsenposten door de study fee van Family Physicians in opleiding te betalen. Door onze ANBI-status is de gift aftrekbaar.
Kijk ook voor giften op de belastingwebsite
Voor een overeenkomst “periodieke gift in geld” heeft de belasting een gunstige regeling getroffen. Gunstig, want i.t.t. een eenmalige gift is er geen drempel en is het bedrag volledig aftrekbaar. Zie ook “Hoeveel kan ik aftrekken?”
U print deze overeenkomst en vult hem in. Dan kunt u de ingevulde en getekende overeenkomst scannen en als attach mailen naar onze secretaris Adam Lagro. Hij tekent dan de overeenkomst en mailt die als PDF-attach retour.
Het totale bedrag dat voor 5 jaar of voor een zelf te bepalen tijd is opgevoerd, kan dan in een keer worden opgegeven als aftrekpost. Ook kunt u uw bank machtigen elk jaar het bedrag af te schrijven over die periode. Dat spreidt de gift over jaren en scheelt gedoe.