Posted on 22/10/2020

Pediatric surgery in Burkina Faso

Fondation Dora will support a new program for pediatric surgery in Burkina Faso.

Over the 5 years of this project, teams from the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) will work with Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Health and local healthcare providers to improve the level of training for doctors and care workers, to decentralize pediatric surgery, and strengthen its infrastructures.

The goal of the project is to save, treat, and re-integrate thousands of Burkina Faso’s children who experience social exclusion because of a disability or an illness that is actually easily treatable with a simple surgical procedure.

This ambitious project integrates the current measures and policies of Burkina Faso’s health system and includes additional support in order to promote a sustainable development of pediatric surgery in the country.