December 1, 2024
Description of request
Neurosurgery is a new speciality at Burkina Faso. We are twenty neurosurgeons for more than twenty millions of population. Challenges are multiples (trauma, malformatives disoders, degenerative spine disorders, vascular pathology, tumors, etc). Neurosurgeons need more training and equiments to fill the gap.
operative surgery: assistance for some difficult cases
Fellowship: to share experiences from countries where neurosurgery is more develop
Research: the field of research in neurosurgery is very poor in my country. I am very insterested in research project (spine, neural tube defect, tumor, etc) and academic exchange
Equipment: neurosurgeons work in difficult conditions. Microscope, endoscope, C-Arm, basic neurosurgical instruments set, motor for dril and trepanation, etc are not available everywhere and eveytime. Surgeons are obliged to buy themselves equipement to perform surgery in some cases.
This Request is open to:
- Include Neurosurgery members that have not selected a subspecialty
- Trained paediatric neurosurgeon
- Neurosurgeon with paediatric interest
- Adult neurosurgeon
Neurosurgery
This Request relates to the following areas of expertise:
- Endoscopy for hydrocephalus
- Shunting for hydrocephalus
- Spinal dysraphism surgery
- Spine surgery
- Trauma neurosurgery
- Tumor neurosurgery
- Vascular neurosurgery
Duration of request
Short-term (1 visit or up to 1 year)
Last updated: January 19, 2025
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