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July 16, 2007 Volume 16 No. 12

Duke’s Surplus Supports Ugandan Medicine
Duke’s New Surplus Program Helps Revitalize Neurosurgery in Kampala

The story began with the visit of Ugandan Pastor Jackson Senyonga to Haglund’s church in 2006. “For 10 years I have taken service trips down to Ecuador,” says Haglund, “but Pastor Jackson’s visit inspired me to consider a surgical mission to Uganda.”

Originally, Haglund wasn’t thinking big. Maybe he could take a ventilator or two, a few drills. Enough to help out. But when he asked around the hospital to see who might go...

Michael Haglund, M.D., Ph.D., a Duke neurosurgeon, has partnered with Duke Global Health PLUS, the Department of Surgery and other donors to organize a neurosurgery team and deliver equipment worth over $1 million dollars to Uganda.

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