Hildah Molate, the first World Spine Care (WSC) scholarship student, graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic earlier this year and is now working at the WSC community spine clinic in Shoshong, Botswana. Dr. Molate hails from the capital city of Gabarone, approximately 150 miles southeast of Shoshong, and received the scholarship opportunity as part of a partnership between WSC and several chiropractic colleges designed to allow individuals from the countries in which WSC maintains a presence to receive their chiropractic education and then return to their native country to practice at a WSC clinic.
World Spine Care launched its first community clinic in Shoshong in 2011 as a pilot project designed to "spearhead the development of a viable model of care for spinal conditions in underserved regions around the world." Since then, WSC has established a secondary Botswana clinic at Mahalapye District Hospital, as well as clinics in Accra (Ghana) and Moca (Dominican Republic). A collaboration project is also underway in India, involving the MGM (Mahatma Ghandhi Mission) University of Health Sciences' physiotherapy department.
Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD, established World Spine Care in 2008 "to fill the profound gap in the evidence-based treatment of musculoskeletal and especially spinal conditions found in underserviced areas around the world." To learn more about World Spine Care, visit www.worldspinecare.org and read "Bringing Primary Spine Care to the World in the May 6, 2011 issue of DC.
