{"id":468,"date":"2017-10-30T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=468"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:48:10","slug":"global-efforts-in-education-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/10\/30\/global-efforts-in-education-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Efforts in Education in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Education is critical in prevent of infection and UNMC and Nebraska Medicine continue their global efforts.<\/p>\n<p>A team recently traveled to Lagos, Nigeria &#8211; a city of 20 million people for such a purpose. They visited the 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Yaba in Lagos with two days of workshops\/education with various leaders and clinical staff from the Army hospital.\u00a0 Education efforts touched on various topics such as infection prevention and control; PPE; waste management; our Nebraska Biocontainment Unit among other topics.\u00a0 Attending were Shelly Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, NEA-BC; Dr. Dele Davies, MD, MHCM; and Dr. John Lowe, PhD from UNMC.\u00a0 Others attending included USAMRIID infectious disease physicians, an infectious disease MD from Singapore who shared their SARS experience and one from South Korea who shared details of their MERS experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-470 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-2-e1508791186780-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-2-e1508791186780-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-2-e1508791186780-120x160.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-2-e1508791186780.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-471 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-3-e1508791204355-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-3-e1508791204355-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-3-e1508791204355-120x160.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/10\/nigeria-3-e1508791204355.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about education efforts <a href=\"https:\/\/netec.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/subscribe2\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.172\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education is critical in prevent of infection and UNMC and Nebraska Medicine continue their global efforts. 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