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- Title
Cardiac surgery in West Africa: the tipping point.
- Authors
Vervoort, Dominique; Kpodonu, Jacques
- Abstract
Keywords: Cardiac surgery; global health; health policy EN Cardiac surgery global health health policy 148 148 1 07/30/20 20200101 NES 200101 I Nwafor i et al greatly illustrate the long and difficult road towards the establishment of an independent cardiac surgical centre in Nigeria.[1] Although the country has one of the longest histories of African countries in performing cardiac surgery from as early as 1974, there is no independently running cardiac centre to date. Meanwhile, Senegal and Ivory Coast serve as growing training hubs for cardiac surgery for francophone African countries. Pan Afr Med J. 2011.; 9: 15. 3 Yangni-Angate KH, Meneas C, Diby F, Diomande M, Adoubi A, Tanauh Y. Cardiac surgery in Africa: a thirty-five year experience on open heart surgery in Cote d'Ivoire.
- Subjects
WEST Africa; CARDIAC surgery; MIDDLE-income countries; LOW-income countries; TEACHING hospitals; CARDIAC intensive care
- Publication
Cardiology in the Young, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 1, p148
- ISSN
1047-9511
- Publication type
letter
- DOI
10.1017/S104795111900310X