The group met regularly to discuss and enhance the innovative HRH Program launched in Rwanda. It was a joyous time for Dr. Ntakiyiruta and his coworkers.
HRH paired United States faculty from over 20 associations-including Dartmouth, University of Virginia, Duke, and Yeshiva-with Rwandan school faculty counterparts. An area-specific "twinning model" sought to give a two-way learning experience that will support and establish a retainable health care system in Rwanda. The HRH Program held not only great guarantee for the nation of Rwanda, but nonetheless, it also held private guarantee for Dr. Ntakiyiruta's day-to-day life and work.
In case the HRH plan reached its ambitious human resource growth objectives, it was reasonable to decide that the professional lives of loyal physicians like Dr. Ntakiyiruta would see desired improvements with the chance to serve more patients and to educate the next generation of surgeons in Rwanda. It would also provide additional time for published research and academic inquiry. News of the Rwandan effort was accompanied by great fanfare when the HRH program was started a little more than two years before.
"The fruits of science serve everyone, particularly those that bear the maximum burden of disease," he also noted. Medical professionals across the various Rwandan hospitals participating in the HRH plan additionally expressed a feeling of great expectation and optimism in the launch of the program. One of the facets that made HRH unique was that outside funding got to support the application would not be funneled through nongovernment organizations (NGOs), as was the custom. Instead, the Ministry of Health in Rwanda would have oversight and total ownership of the program, which was scheduled to run from 2012-2019. The project was mainly funded by the US authorities at a level of US $170 million.
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PUBLICATION DATE: May 04, 2015 PRODUCT #: BAB309-HCB-ENG
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