The next Manning Net meeting is on August 24 from 6.30pm at Club Taree
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The guest speaker this month is Dr Vera Sistenich on emergency medicine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
This year, Lucy Hobgood-Brown (one of our long distance Netters) has taken a team of medical professionals to DRC to conduct emergency medicine education along with other projects focussing on assisting local women – by Australian women.
Dr Vera Sistenich was one of the extraordinary members of this team. Lucy will introduce us to Vera who will share her story of this incredible journey and the projects making a difference to the lives of the Congolese people they work with.
Dr Vera Sistenich is a board certified emergency medicine specialist in Australia, where her areas of interest are Aboriginal health, medical education and the development of physician training in the field of international emergency medicine.
Outside Australia, she has clinical experience in China, Nepal, Peru, South Africa, Vietnam and the UK. She has also worked with asylum seekers both at the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
In 2013-14, she was health policy advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.
Vera is HandUp Congo's project leader for the Emergency Medicine Education Project in the DRC. Since the start of its activities in 2015, Vera has worked with a team of volunteers and local Congolese health professionals to deliver education, practical skills training and medical equipment to over 400 healthcare providers across eigt different medical institutions in the DRC.
The cost for the evening is $25, which includes a two-course meal with complimentary tea and coffee after the meal.
Please RSVP by phone or email by 10am on Monday the 21st August. To RSVP phone Susan Ryan on 6553 5150, Ruth Brown on, 6553 9877 or Marilyn Thomas on 6551 3416.