Meeting AMREF about our project in Senegal

AMREF is an international African organization headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

We had the great opportunity to meet with two representatives of AMREF in Paris: Dr Mor NGOM, Program Coordinator in West Africa (Senegal) and Silvia TOLVE in charge of programs in France.

We were mostly interested in their experience with telemedicine in Senegal. They used to work with the telemedicine service, part of the Minsitry of Health, and are willing to pursue their collaboration to share their experience and expertise: a reference center has been built in Dakar and several projects have been set up with local hospitals to develop e-health in the area. A convention has been prepared with the previous government and should be discussed again soon.

AMREF was also involved in the SAHEL project led by European Space Agency (ESA) in Kenya. The SAHEL project proposes an efficient cooperation between technological players (industries, operators), health stakeholders (health workers, nurses, specialists...), centers of excellence providing medical content for eLearning and NGOs for local implementation with the support of regional actors.

We agreed to collaborate on the construction of the telemedicine project in Senegal with Prof. Mbayang NDIAYE NIANG and the new Ministry of Health led by Prof. Awa Marie COLL SECK. Moreover, we plan to work together on other proposals by sharing expertise and network.