Rwanda spearheading Africa’s surgical revolution

Rwanda-based IRCAD Africa has trained more 300 African surgeons in minimally invasive surgery, a government health official said as the African continent tries to address the great disparity between high and low income countries in the use of these high-tech surgical operations.

Rwanda inaugurated IRCAD (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l’Appareil Digestif) Africa, the only centre on the continent that deals in research and…