Medical Students' Association of Rwanda

While the world is currently recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be counterintuitive for governments and health-promoting organizations to give a room for other disease-causing viruses such as Hepatitis viruses and HIV among others which can strike global health status. Thus, it is important to us as medical students Read more…

By TUNGA Christian

Earlier in life, possibly in high school before I enrolled into this medicine program. I had heard of a few cancer cases, such as my friend’s mom who died of breast cancer, another friend’s uncle who luckily got rid of a brain tumor and so on thus making it easy for me to confuse with other diseases. My turning point of how I looked at the disease was a few months after I enrolled into the medicine program in level one when I came across a neurosurgeon late Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, When Breathe Becomes Air [1] and how he battled stage IV lung cancer after reaching at the peak of his career as a neurosurgeon. Now to make it clear, cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade nearby tissues and is the leading cause of death worldwide accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 according to the World Health Organization, WHO. Cancer is also categorized in types such as lung cancer, breast cancer, colon and so on, depending on the site of origin. But to make myself clear too, after reading Ben Carson’s Gifted Hands in high school, I was inspired and had to focus my dreams to being a neurosurgeon which is why I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Paul Kalanithi’s book. For God’s sake, this book scared the shit out of me. I drowned in my tears throughout the book because I couldn’t imagine studying and training all those years, like am doing and not be able to reap what he sowed. How unfair that is? Anyways, don’t cry too soon because the book changed my life and am going to tell you how. (more…)

  By MUGISHA Innocent Productivity may seem to be a broad term with a variety of meanings and definitions depending on one’s discipline/field [1]. While an economist might not have a similar definition of productivity to an engineer, medical doctor, politician and so on depending on the field, the general meaning Read more…

While the world is currently battling the COVID-19 pandemic, it would be counterintuitive of governments and health-promoting organizations to give a room for other disease-causing viruses such as Hepatitis viruses and HIV among others. It is thus our concern as medical students that we ought to pledge joining forces with Read more…

We had a TV talk where we were represented by Ndagije serge MEDSAR President with our National officer on public health together with our Guest of Honor Dr Eulade NDIZIHIWE  sharing consequential knowledge about Hepatitis .it was an immense opportunity for youth to show off their actions in Global health Read more…