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DAISI has a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its partner countries in the South Pacific, conducting overseas trips only when a contractual partnership is in place.  Overseas trips are agreed on up to a year in advance as part of the overseas strategic plan.
DAISI successfully conducted five subspecialty surgical training trips (trips # 1-5) to the Solomon Islands in 2023. Regrettably the last three planned trips (trips # 6-8) had to be cancelled. DAISI apologises to those volunteers affected by these cancellations.

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Completed 2023 trips 

1. 18-26 Feb = Gallbladder & Colorectal (Matt Rickard, Robert Winn & Simon Cook)
2. 18-26 Mar = Gynae (Alan Tong, Nargis Noori, Leo Lacy, Yuting Liu, Mandy Wang, Dhivya Thangavel, Ulla Mäkinen, Pina Cingiloglu, Martin Plymouth & Jose Periera )
3. 23-30 Apr = Urology (Tim Nicholson, Ian Carter & Yun Zhao)
4. 21-28 May = Vascular & diabetic foot (Rob Fitridge) 
5. 18-25 June = Head & neck (Eva Wong, Linda Fenton, & Michelle Lye))

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Cancelled  2023 trips 

6. 23-30 July = Colorectal, Gallbladder & Hernia  (Christophe Berney) 
7. 17-25 Sep = Gynae (Dr  Supuni Kapurabandara, Rebecca Li, Anousha Woods, Emily Stevenson, Steve De Luca, David Hately).
8. 22-29 Oct = Gallbladder (Charbel Sandroussi, Alen Brodaric & Jason Chami )

Planned 2024 trips

Trips for 2024 are still work in progress.

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