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Dr. TOLA OSINOWO PRESIDENT WONCA AFRICA & PROF VICTOR INEM WONCA RURAL
Wonca africa
WONCA is acronym comprising the first five initials of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians. Wonca was founded in 1972 Wonca is an affiliate organisation of the World Health Organization (WHO)
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Asia Pacific East Mediterranean Europe Iberoamericana-CIMF North America South Asia
2008 report
SIXTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY WHA62.12 Agenda item 12.4 22 May 2009
(5) to train and retain adequate numbers of health workers, with appropriate skill mix, including primary health care nurses, midwives,
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FAMILY MEDICINE TRAINING IN AFRICA South Africa- MSc Fam Med Congo DRC-MSc Fam Med-SA driven West Africa-WACP-Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia Ghana Fellowship of Ghana College Nigeria-DFM and Fellowship of Nigerian Colleges
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Doctors in administration should be made to put in 15hours per week of clinical service No doctor should be redundant eg in the rural Nigerian town of Ososa the King built a PHC and invited doctors to render free health care they see up to 500 patients a week in compensation the doctors are made Chiefs
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The 3rd WONCA Africa Regional Conference will be held on 16-19 October 2012 at the Elephant Hills Hotel, Victoria falls, Zimbabwe.