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                                                                           SSNR Archive

 

  • Pre – RMAC (January 2019 to January 2020):

The development of the SSNR started in reality with the formation of the Rehabilitation Medicine Advisory Committee (RMAC) by the current Secretary General, Mr Wail Ahmed, who was a member of the Sudan Doctors’ Union UK Branch (SDU UK) Executive Committee, at that time, and first author of the “December Revolution Centre for Rehabilitation of Traumatic Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries”. Prior to that, there were isolated efforts from Spinal Injuries and Rehabilitation Medicine Consultants, who worked abroad, to support the traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) and traumatic brain injury victims since the start of the December Revolution in collaboration with the Sudanese Diaspora Doctors’ group and Hadhreen Initiative organization (MDT for Sudan) since January 2019. The project proposal is in the link below:

 

https://cdn-cms.f-static.com/uploads/905961/normal_5e1c4160cb357.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo of Mr Wail Ahmed taken in Royal Care Hospital in Khartoum on 13.08.2019 while reviewing a spinal cord injury gunshot victim during the December 2018 Revolution.

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  • RMAC (January 2020 to January 2021):

The role of the RMAC initially was:

  1. To advise the SDU UK, conduct options appraisal and oversee the development of the December Revolution Centre for Rehabilitation of TSCI and TBI.

  2. To create a link with the PRM specialty and the Sudanese Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Association (SPRMA) in Sudan.

  3. To contribute to the education of the PMR specialty in Sudan – workshops, teaching etc.

 

The first RMAC meeting was held virtually using Skype on 18/01/2020 and attended by:

  1. Mr Aheed Osman – Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Injuries – UK

  2. Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed – Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine – KSA

  3. Dr Ahmed Saad – Consultant in Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) – Sudan

  4. Mr Wail Ahmed – Consultant Surgeon in Spinal Injuries – UK

 

The initial communication between RMAC members was by direct phone calls and eventually a WhatsApp group for the RMAC was first created on 01/02/2020.

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Screenshot of Sud Society of NeuroRehab (formerly RMAC) WhatsApp group with 40 members now created on 01/02/2020

 

Since then, the RMAC met regularly via Skype, created Sudan RMAC Skype group and expanded its membership by adding the following colleagues:

  1. Dr Raef Dahab – Consultant in Spinal Injuries and Rehabilitation Medicine – UK

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  1. Dr Alaeldin Elmalik – Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine – Australia

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  1. Dr Satty Hassan – Specialist in Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine – Sudan

                    (Joined in June 2020)

  1. Dr Hanan Osman – Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine – UK (Joined in June 2020)

 

On Wednesday 19/02/2020, in collaboration with Hadhreen Organization, the RMAC organised F2F Spinal Injuries outpatient clinics led by led by Mr Aheed Osman with the support of Dr Ahmed Saad and Dr Satty Hassan, RMAC members, at the African Dutch Medical Centre in Khartoum. They reviewed around 6 – 7 spinal injury cases, who were victims of gunshots during the December 2018 Revolution (1st wave). This was the first clinic for these heroes following discharge from the Rehabilitation Unit at the Christian Medical Centre Hospital in Vellore, South India, after they spent 3 – 4 months period of inpatient specialist neurorehabilitation programmes.

 

Below are some of the videos recorded on 19/02/2020 with the December 2018 Revolution spinal cord injury heroes:

  1. Motwakil Osman – video recording 1

  2. Salih Hussein – video recordings 2 & 3

  3. Modathir Musa – video recording 4

  4. Yousif Magdi – video recording 5

 

In the 2nd week of February 2020, in collaboration with Hadhreen Organization, the RMAC organised 2 F2F Traumatic Brain Injuries home visits led by led by Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed with the support of Dr Ahmed Saad and Dr Satty Hassan, RMAC members for the following heroes:

  1. Abu Algasim Ali.

  2. Omer Eltayeb.

 

One of the main achievements of the RMAC in the year 2020 was the conduction of Options Appraisal process firstly by visiting applicant host hospitals in Khartoum including Soba University Hospital, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Ibrahim Malik Hospital and Omdurman Hospital in February 2020. The visits were carried out in February 2020 by RMAC members:

  1. Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed

  2. Mr Aheed Osman

  3. Dr Ahmed Saad

  4. Dr Satty Hassan

 

Following the visits and review of options appraisal checklist, a comprehensive Options Appraisal report was produced by the RMAC on 05/03/2020 and handed to the SDU UK. The report is in the link below:

 

https://static.s123-cdn-static-d.com/uploads/905961/normal_5f70d9f5a0ed2.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Screenshot of the 4th RMAC meeting on 13.06.2020 via Skype Call including Mr Wail Ahmed (top left), Mr Aheed Osman (bottom left) and Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed (right)

 

 

The in the year 2020 were as follows:

 

  1. First meeting on 18/01/2020

  2. Second meeting on 29/02/2020

  3. Third meeting  on 14/03/2020

  4. Fourth meeting on 13/06/2020

  5. Fifth meeting on 05/07/2020

  6. Sixth meeting on 18/07/2020

  7. Seventh meeting on 29/08/2020

  8. Eighth meeting on 20/12/202

 

 

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Screenshot of the 6th RMAC meeting on 18.07.2020 via Skype Call including Dr Satty Hassan (top left), Dr Alaeldin Elmalik (bottom left), Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed (top right), Engineer Mohamed Hag Elnor (middle right), Mr Wail Ahmed (bottom left)

 

In collaboration with the SDU UK, the RMAC played a central role in the development of the Rehabilitation Centre Steering Committee in July 2020 to include other stakeholders to promote the development of the “December Revolution Centre for Rehabilitation of Traumatic Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries”.  The members of the Rehabilitation Centre Steering Committee included:

  1. The RMAC.

  2. The Sudan Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Association (SPRMA).

  3. The SDU UK.

  4. Soba University Hospital.

  5. Federal Ministry of Health.

  6. Federal Ministry of Security and Social Development.

  7. El-Nifeidi Charity Group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

الهيئة النقابية لاطباء السودان بالمملكة المتحدة نشرة صحفية – Sudan Doctors Union UK (sdu.org.uk)

Screenshot of the SDU UK Press Release on 26.07.2020 after the first meeting of the Rehabilitation Centre Steering Committee attended by 5 members of the RMAC – Mr Wail Ahmed, Mr Aheed Osman, Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed, Dr Ahmed Saad and Dr Satty Hassan

 

The RMAC continued to organise the Rehabilitation Centre Steering Committee meetings every 2 months through Skype, writing minutes and following-up action plans throughout 2020 and 2021.

The following virtual meetings were organised:

  1. First meeting on 26/07/2020

  2. Second meeting on 19/09/2020

  3. Third meeting on 03/11/2020

  4. Fourth meeting on 28/12/2020

Below are links to video recordings for meetings on 19/09/2020 and 28/08/2021:

  • Video recording 6

  • Video recording 7

On 16/12/2020, Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed, Dr Satty Hassan and Dr Ahmed Saad, RMAC members visited the Centre of Amira Karrar at Soba University Hospital to explore the option of starting neurorehabilitation outpatient clinics for the SCI and TBI victims of the December 2018 Revolution.

On 20/12/2020, Mr Wail Ahmed, RMAC member, proposed to change the name of the RMAC to the Sudanese Society of Neurological Rehabilitation (Sudanese Society of Neurorehabilitation – SSNR) for the following reasons:

  1. To introduce and develop the specialty of Neurological Rehabilitation in Sudan.

  2. To provide neurorehabilitation training to medical, nursing, physical, occupational therapy and neuropsychology staff in Sudan.

Following approval by the RMAC, the name of the WhatsApp group was changed to Sudanese Society of Neurorehabilitation and a google mail group with the name Sudanese Society of Neurological Rehabilitation was created.

On 25/12/2020, the RMAC started clinics to review the SCI and TBI victims of the December 2018 Revolution as follows:

  • On 25/12/2020, Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed, RMAC member, completed  home visits for two of the TBI victims:

    1.  Mujeeb Alrahman, a quadriplegia who was still a minimal consciousness /vegetative state, and a clinic report, was written subsequently.

    2. Abu Algasim Ali Abu Algasim, a quadriplegia who was still on minimal consciousness state and a clinic report, was written subsequently.  

  • On 29/12/2020, Mr Wail Ahmed, RMAC Member, completed joint virtual/telephone clinics using Skype calls to see the December 2018 Revolution spinal cord injury victims. The first 2 cases were seen by Mr Wail Ahmed virtually with Dr Ahmed Saad on Skype call on 29/12/2020 at the African Dutch Medical Centre in Khartoum and clinic reports were produced afterwards.

 

  • SSNR (January 2021 to January 2022):

On 02/01/2021, two further members were added to the SSNR group as follows:

  • Dr Ali Gaffar – ST3 in Rehabilitation Medicine (Specialist Registrar)

  • Dr Mohammed Suleiman – Trust Specialist Registrar in Spinal Injuries

 

The SSNR continued the joint virtual clinics and home visits as follows:

  • A joint virtual home visit was done by Mr Wail Ahmed with Dr Ahmed Saad and Dr Satty Hassan on Skype call on 02/01/2021 for one of the December 2018 Revolution heroes who could not attend the clinic in person. Photos and video are attached below for Modathir Musa:

 

 

 

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  • Video recording 8

 

  • On 12/01/2021, Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed, SSNR member, completed a home visit for another TBI victim who was in a minimal consciousness state – Omer Eltayeb – and a clinic report was written subsequently.

  • On 16/01/2021, Mr Aheed Osman, SSNR member, completed a clinic virtually with Dr Satty Hassan on Skype call and reviewed - Al-aagib Nooreldin – a spinal cord injury victim at the African Dutch Medical Centre in Khartoum and clinic report was written afterwards.

  • On 05/02/2021, the SSNR adopted the following logo as its first ever logo:

 

 

 

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  • The SSNR meetings (formerly RMAC) in the year 2021 were as follows:

    1. Ninth meeting on 17/01/2021 (+ meeting with Healthcare 2.0 Telemedicine services).

    2. Tenth meeting on 04/04/2021

    3. Eleventh meeting on 09/05/2021 (+ meeting with Healthcare 2.0 Telemedicine, Dr Monzir Hamdan, and Medical Director of Health Insurance in Khartoum State, Dr Al-Mogheera El-Amin) = Zoom meeting

    4. Twelfth meeting on 28/08/2021 = Zoom meeting

    5. Thirteenth meeting on 18/09/2021 = Zoom meeting

    6. Fourteenth meeting on 16/10/2021 = Zoom meeting

    7. Fifteenth meeting on 31/10/2021 = Zoom meeting

 

  • The SSNR continued to organise the Rehabilitation Centre Steering Committee meetings:

  1. Fifth meeting on 06/03/2021

  2. Sixth meeting on 28/08/2021

 

  • On 28/08/2021, the SSNR created the Sudanese Society of Neurorehabilitation Group on Facebook to reach out to colleagues in the field in social media and introduce the SSNR to them:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/877122399901006

 

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  1. Sudanese Society of NeuroRehabilitation Group | Facebook

 

  • The first draft of the SSNR constitution/bylaws was written on 07/09/2021 on 23 pages.

 

  • On 17/10/2021, the SSNR led by Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed, RMAC member, conducted a joint virtual home visit for 2 TBI victims of the December 2018 Revolution with Dr Ahmed Saad and Satty hassan. Also in attendance in the Skype Call were Dr Hanan Osman, Dr Alaeldin Elmalik and Mr Wail Ahmed:

    1. Mujeeb Alrahman, a quadriplegia who was still a minimal consciousness /vegetative state.

    2. Abu Algasim Ali Abu Algasim, a quadriplegia who was still on minimal consciousness state but improving clinically.  

 

 

First page of the draft SSNR Constitution / Bylaws

 

 

 

 

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Photo of Mujeeb Alrahman during joint virtual clinic on 17/10/2021

 

 

  • On 31/10/2021, the SSNR conducted an urgent meeting to discuss management plans for the gunshot injured victims of TBI and TSCI during mass demonstrations following the 25th October 2021 military coup.

 

  • On 01/11/2021, following the 25th October Military Coup, the SSNR Steering Committee wrote a Standard Operational Procedure (SSNR – SOP1) document is to start the process of opening a specialist hyper-acute rehabilitation unit in Soba University Hospital for management of traumatic spinal cord injuries (TSCI), traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and other polytrauma injuries (such as peripheral nerve injuries, multiple limb injuries, amputations etc) that require prolonged period of inpatient rehabilitation. (This SOP was later amended to open and develop the specialist hyper-acute rehabilitation unit in Khartoum Teaching Hospital on 26/03/2022 after it became impossible to develop the unit in Soba University Hospital due to the lack of staffing)

 

  • On 04/11/2021, the SSNR Steering Committee conducted an urgent meeting with members of the Executive Board of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) to discuss the urgent development of hyper-acute trauma rehabilitation services for TBI and TSCI victims in Sudan:

    • Dr James Middleton, Chair of ISCoS External Relations Committee

    • Mr Stephen Muldoon, Chair of ISCoS Educational Committee

    • Ms Fiona Barr, Independent Healthcare Consultant

      • Video recording 9

 

  • On 08/12/2021, the SSNR Steering Committee collaborated with Hadhreen and Khartoum Teaching Hospital and arranged a F2F Spinal Injuries Clinic led by Mr Aheed Osman with Dr Ahmed Saad and Dr Satty Hassan. In addition to others, the first 3 newly injured heroes, since 25/10/2021, reviewed in the clinic,  were 1-3:

    1. Mazin Ahmad Hassan

    2. Yasir Mohamed Ali

    3. Muhannad Mujahid

    4. Motawkil Osman

    5. Al-aagib Nooreldin

 

  • On 17/12/2021, the SSNR Steering Committee organised a meeting with Dr Ehab Tarawa, Deputy General Manager of Soba University Hospital, to discuss the possibility of opening a hyper-acute trauma rehabilitation unit for management of acute TBI and TSCI cases.

 

 

  • SSNR Steering Committee (January 2022 to February 2023):

  • On 04/01/2022, the SSNR Steering Committee was contacted by a representative from the Sudanese Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Trainees who requested regular teaching sessions about rehabilitation medicine curriculum topics. This triggered the evolution of the SSNR Steering Committee to become structured and pay membership fees to buy a virtual platform (Zoom) to be used to deliver teaching sessions for trainees.

 

  • Whilst the name of the SSNR Steering Committee was used in the second half of the Society’s transitional year (from RMAC to SSNR) of 2021, the SSNR lacked the following:

  1. There was no structured Steering Committee with defined responsibilities or offices (President, Secretary General, Treasurer, Academic Secretary etc.)

  2. There were no Bylaws to govern the work of the Steering Committee.

  3. There was no membership base, bank account or assets.

 

  • In January 2022, the SSNR Steering Committee entered the final stage of development into a structured organization with defined offices, constitution, Bylaws, membership, bank account and clear targets to become a legitimate professional organization.

 

  • Summary of the year 2022 events are in the following slides :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Members of the SSNR Steering Committee and Offices – January 2022:

  1. Mr Aheed Osman – President

  2. Dr Alaeldin Elmalik – Vice President

  3. Mr Wail Ahmed – Secretary General

  4. Dr Mohammed Suleiman – Vice Secretary General (stepped down)

  5. Dr Hanan Osman – Treasurer

  6. Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed – Academic Secretary

  7. Dr Ahmed Saad – Media Secretary

  8. Dr Raef Dahab – Membership Secretary

  9. Dr Satty Hassan – Sudan Affairs Secretary 

  10. Dr Ali Gaffar – UK Trainees Representative Secretary

  11. Dr Mahmoud Khalid – Sudan Trainees Representative Secretary

 

 

                     

Dr Ahmed Saad – SSNR Steering Committee                     Dr Satty Hassan - SSNR Steering Committee     

Media Secretary – Jan 2022 – Feb 2023                         Sudan Affairs Secretary – Jan 2022 – Feb 2023 

 

 

 

  • On 22/10/2022, the SSNR Steering Committee organised the first SSNR General Assembly meeting virtually using Zoom Webinar with attendance of 18 members.

    • The SSNR GA approved the SSNR Constitution and Bylaws by unanimous agreement.

    • The SSNR GA meeting was followed by the SSNR Educational meeting

 

  • Video recording 10

  • Video recording 11

 

 

  • The SSNR Steering Committee report written on 28/01/2023 in preparation for the SSNR GA meeting and Election of The SSNR Executive Committee on 04/02023 included all the details of activities in the year 2022. (see attached report )

 

 

  • On 04/02/2023, the SSNR Steering Committee organised the first Constitutional SSNR General Assembly meeting and Elections of the first SSNR Executive Committee, which was attended virtually via Zoom Webinar by 26 SSNR members.

 

 

 

  • A detailed report of the events of the SSNR GA meeting on 04/02/2023 is available on this archive page.

 

  • The following SSNR members were elected, during the SSNR GA meeting on 04/02/2023, to the first SSNR Executive Committee for the term February 2023 to February 2025:

  1. Mr Aheed Osman - SSNR President.

  2. Dr Alaeldin Elmalik - SSNR Vice President.

  3. Mr Wail Ahmed - SSNR Secretary General.

  4. Dr Fatima Taha - SSNR Vice Secretary General.

  5. Dr Hanan Osman - SSNR Treasurer.

  6. Dr Salwa Ali Ahmed - SSNR Academic Secretary.

  7. Dr Raef Dahab - SSNR Media and Information Secretary.

  8. Dr Amro Kirkisawi - SSNR Sudan Affairs Secretary.

  9. Dr Mahmoud Khaled - SSNR Membership Secretary.

  10. Dr Mustafa Hassan - SSNR Sudan Trainees Representative Secretary.

  11. Dr Ali Hassan - SSNR Overseas Trainee Representative Secretary.

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