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Why we must increase the number of paediatric surgeons in Africa

Medics preparing for open heart surgery at Tenwek Mission Hospital. [Gilbert Kimutai, Standard]

Burundi does not have a single paediatric surgeon. The same is the case South Sudan, Liberia, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Seychelles and Comoros.

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