Anesthesiologists' demography in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa: the impact of fifteen years of Belgo-Beninese cooperation (original) (raw)

Acta anaesthesiologica Belgica, 2013

Abstract

Belgium has been collaborating with the French-speaking University of Abomey-Calavi in Cotonou (Republic of Benin) for 15 years to train anesthesiologists for Sub-Saharan French-speaking African countries. At the end of the nineties, Sub-Saharan Africa was the only part of the world with a decreasing number of anesthesiologists. Thanks to various financial supports coming mainly from Belgian governmental cooperation funds, the program has been successful in reversing the demographic trend and even started a multiplying effect through the creation of schools for nurse-anesthetists, and through the creation of new training centers for physician anesthesiologists. Sixty-nine anesthesiologists from 13 countries graduated from Cotonou, 59 (85.5%) of whom actually choose to work in Africa. At least 40 of them teach anesthesia, playing a key role in the creation of new schools and training centers.

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