Speaker
Rukaiya Rashid Kombo
Ireland
Biography
A dedicated nurse with five years of experience in various medical settings in Tanzania, including one year experience as an Assistant Nurse at Emirates Specialty Hospital in United Arab Emirates and one year experience as a senior healthcare assistant at Dungannon Care Home, Carefour Home Care and Stanfield Nursing Home in United Kingdom. Also trained as a scrub nurse in theatre department at Menofia University Teaching Hospital in Egypt and Maternity department at Xpamanine Hospital in Mozambique. Currently I am volunteering in Voices4Care organization under the Ireland Institute of Palliative Care, where I contribute to improving the lives of people with life limiting conditions. During my nursing studies I conducted research on Knowledge about Epilepsy and Attitudes toward Students with Epilepsy among Middle and High School Teachers in Zanzibar, where i was able to evaluate the Attitudes, and knowledge of the teachers toward the student with Epilepsy, give awareness to ensure safety for epileptic students and prepared a project of preventing and managing neonatal asphyxia in Maternity department at Mnazimmoja Hospital.