About Global Vascular Companionship
MISSION STATEMENT:
For each person, in every nation to access equitable vascular care.
The Global Vascular Companionship aims to facilitate the training of surgeons to provide essential vascular surgery in underserved areas. It is a framework through which interested vascular units world wide are connected with aspiring individual surgeons or units who would like to develop a vascular service. The program will match and connect aspiring units with established ones, and will provide practical examples of how the companionship might best work.
The overall vision for the program is to see every country with a population of greater than 100,000, and every tertiary hospital caring for more than 5 million people (without a functioning referral pathway to a centre that has vascular surgery), having access to at least one surgeon trained to provide essential vascular surgery.
Global Vascular Companionship is a not-for-profit public company limited by guarantee which is
established to be, and to continue as, a Charity.
The principal purpose of Global Vascular Companionship is to promote the prevention of, or control, vascular related diseases in human beings by:
- Providing education, training and mentorship to health personnel in identified communities to enable delivery of equitable vascular care;
- Facilitating and/or providing vascular care delivery and vascular care capacity building within identified communities;
- Undertaking research and education initiatives around global vascular health;
- Undertaking public awareness/education campaigns around global vascular health;
- Identifying communities in need of equitable vascular care, including those from countries the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs declares to be developing;
- Selecting and matching mentors (vascular and endovascular surgeons of good standing from established vascular centres) and mentees (general and/or other surgical subspeciality trained surgeons aspiring to become vascular surgeons in areas of need) for the purpose of capacity building in the mentee’s hospital and community;
- Empowering and enabling mentees to return to their centres and establish a vascular service;
- Building a global community of vascular surgical mentors and mentee to bring the benefits of individual companionships and training to their respective communities; and
- Engaging with other governmental/non-governmental organisations in aid of the above purposes.
In many low- and middle-income countries, vascular surgery IN PARTICULAR lags behind
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