Health logistics scholarships go to Cameroon and Halver
11.08.2011 13:33
Great demand for the announcement of a scholarship for the distance learning course “Bachelor of Health Logistics (BA)”. The APOLLON University of Health Sciences spontaneously awarded more than one scholarship - including to Cameroon, Africa.
At the beginning of June 2011, the APOLLON University of Health Economics announced a full scholarship for the “Bachelor of Health Logistics (BA)” course nationwide. The distance learning university already awarded this scholarship in 2009 and 2010, but never before have so many applications been received as this year.
Actually, the university just wanted to award a scholarship, but spontaneously decided to expand the tender. “Especially the current situation Somalia as well as recent events, for example in Japan or New Zealand led us to award more than one scholarship. New forces in disaster control are needed. We would like to make our contribution by awarding scholarships and ensure that these staff are trained and can help,” says Prof. Elmar Erkens, Dean of Technology and Logistics at APOLLON University. For this reason APOLLON University awarded two full scholarships and three partial scholarships.
One of the Full scholarships receives Sandra Kreuzinger. “In our eyes, Ms. Kreuzinger is an example of the relevance of our degree program and we would definitely like to support her work,” said Erkens.
Sandra Kreuzinger works in Cameroon and advises the Special Fund for Health, which is responsible for distributing medicines to health facilities in the region. She applied for the scholarship because she can pass on the knowledge she gained from studying health logistics through her work in Cameroon, so that as many people as possible can benefit from it and support the implementation of a wide range of measures. you see special need for health logisticians in developing countriessaid the 32-year-old. “By awarding the scholarship to Ms. Kreuzinger, we want to promote development in Cameroon in our own way,” says Katrin Holdmann from the study service at APOLLON University.
Joachim Kruse's application shows that health logistics is also a big topic in Germany Halver in the Märkisches Sauerland. The 49 year old trained health and nursing staff has become increasingly familiar with the logistics processes in hospitals throughout his professional career and has been working for the hospital since 2011 Setting up logistics management responsible for Märkische Kliniken GmbH. “I see the transfer of knowledge for functional supply concepts to the interfaces of the various professional groups within a 'production chain' as an important challenge for nursing and especially that of the logistician,” Kruse writes in his application. He expects the know-how imparted in the course to provide a scientific look at current questions about health care and provide impulses for the development of needs-based care concepts. “Mr Kruse is a wonderful example of the fact that health logisticians are needed not only in extreme disaster cases or only in crisis areas outside of Germany, but also in can use their knowledge to optimize everyday clinical processes“, emphasizes Katrin Holdmann.
The APOLLON University has awarded further so-called partial scholarships, including three partial scholarships for 50 percent of the tuition fees. These went to Pforzheim, Bremen and Wels in Austria.