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WORK has started on a new Kalamunda Primary Care Centre next to the Kalamunda Hospital site. Two weeks ago, the land for the centre was cleared and construction should start in three months. The centre is being created by Mead Medical and has been privately funded through Medfin Finance after the project was rejected for Federal funding. Mead Medical is the oldest established medical

UWA Medical School and Australian Doctors for Africa (a fledgling WA charity) have agreed to assist the newHargeisa Medical School, in the capital of the Republic ofSomaliland. Assistance is in the form of donated equipment and regular visits from WA doctors to train new doctors so the (unofficial) nation can rebuild after years of civil war. As recent as last March, Prof Trevor Parry,

A group of senior WA medicos have turned their time and attention to helping the underprivileged medical students of war-ravaged Somaliland, an independent region within Somalia occupying the territory once known as British Somaliland. The consortium of doctors, led by Drs Rod Thelander and Gary Hastwell, and UWA Medical School Dean Prof Ian Puddey, is looking to cement a close relationship

Somalilandpress has distilled some main stories making headlines across Somaliland this week (12 April, 2011). Friday, 10 April: University of Hargeisa goes down under University of Hargeisa (HoU) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Western Australia (UWA), for joint cooperation in the fields of medicine and health science. The agreement was signed by