Expanding South-South cooperation

Dr Najeebulah Bina, Head of Cardiac Surgery at the French the French Medical Institute for Children (IMFE) in Kabul wished to pass on his expertise to his Malian colleagues at the André Festoc Center in Bamako, Malithrough a cardiac surgery mission.

Trained in France and a missionary surgeon with La Chaîne de l’Espoir for many years, Dr Najeebulah Bina has acquired a wealth of skills in cardiac surgery, which he is now keen to put to good use for the benefit of children through his missions.

During the mission to the Festoc Center between April 6 and 20, 12 children suffering from heart disease were treated and operated on by the Malian team accompanied by Dr. Najeebulah Bina and a French medical team comprising a resuscitator, a perfusionist and two intensive care nurses.

A fruitful South-South collaboration

The South-South missions set up by La Chaîne de l’Espoir aim to empower local medical and paramedical teams over the long term.

Thanks to the commitment of the teams and this new collaboration, the progress of local medical staff is constantly improving.

Thanks to La Chaîne de l’Espoir and its commitment to increasing cooperation between developing countries, local teams will be able to carry out cardiac surgery themselves, thanks to the training they receive beforehand.

During this mission, we simultaneously carried out a skills-building mission in the biomedical field, as well as a supervisory mission in the hospitalization department.