Peru:

Over several years starting in 2015, Dr. Flood and Dr.Poirier along with multiple health professionals including Chris and Sarah (physiotherapy) and Donna (nurse continence advisor) partnered with the NGO Sombrilla, traveled to Peru as an attempt to enhance education and training in the conservative management of pelvic floor disorders. The project extended over four years of working with Peruvian healthcare professionals to provide training in holistic treatment of pelvic floor disorders. We introduced and promoted the use of pessaries and pelvic floor physiotherapy and to facilitated it’s uptake throughout the country with a focus on accessibility for poor and indigenous women. We worked within the Peruvian healthcare system at various levels supporting access to training for healthcare professionals and supporting them in requesting access to pelvic floor physiotherapy and pessaries (medical implements used in pelvic floor care) in the country. A priority was to work in communities of poor and indigenous women who have the least health care access in the country. Indigenous and local women were trained to build awareness of pelvic floor health in their communities promote prevention and connect women with local care providers.
Our connections with the many health care professionals in Peru involved:
- meetings and educational sessions with universities including Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
- promotion of the training of a urogynecologist in Peru
- supporting Francisca Robinson, the leader in pelvic floor conservative management in Peru
- provided clinics in multiple health centres in Huarez, Lima and Cajamarca
- provided workshops and lectures to healthcare workers and faculty in Huarez, Cajamarca and Lima
- educational sessions and meetings with faculty in Peru, using the introductions by Dr Jorge Mayo
- presentations at the Urogynecology Society in Lima
- presentations at the Peruvian Society of OBGYN annual meeting
- presentations at the ALAPP (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Piso Pevico) in Mexico City
 

Currently with Covid 19, our travel is limited however we are hoping to continue to forge relationships with the country’s urogynecology development.

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Nepal:

Nepalese women have the highest reported incidence of genital prolapse in the world. Because of this, the Nepal government has partnered with FIUGA (Foundation for International Urogynecology Assistance) and has developed a fellowship in Urogynecology. Dr Mohan
Chandra Regmi is the fellowship director. The curriculum hosts international surgical faculty and a remote lecture series.
Dr. Flood was accepted to travel to Nepal as international surgical faculty in 2020, however this is now on hold given the world, and Nepal’s, struggles with the pandemic. We are hoping that this program will resume in the future. In the meantime, our faculty contribute to the remote lecture series, presents to fellows in both Ghana and Nepal.

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