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    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) last week delivered medical supplies, including medicines, worth 161,000 Swiss francs (about US $93,000) to five hospitals and surgeries in Kissidougou, Lola, Yomou and Sanoyha, southeastern Guinea, the ICRC reported on Thursday.

    The delivery followed ICRC training programmes for Guinean doctors. In April, two seminars on war surgery were held in Conakry and the southeastern town of Nzerekore. They enabled 70 civilian and military surgeons to improve their skills in caring for the war-wounded, ICRC NEWS reported.

    In May, a surgeon and a nurse anaesthetist from the ICRC provided further practical training at the Kissidougou hospital, the Sanoyha medical and surgical clinic and the Camp Samory Touré military hospital in Conakry, the humanitarian organisation said.

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