Doctors engaged in plastic surgery and autopedics are improving in both skills and practices that help address complicated compound fractures very difficult to treat.
The Rwandan doctors are trained by international professionals that come to the country every year to complement them in treating and training other health workers.
In 2010, 35 professions in plastic surgery and orthopedics came to Rwanda for the first time to assist local doctors address such health needs.
The exercise has since become an annual tradition and helped increase the number of Rwandan doctors in that field from 2 to 50 doctors.
The Rwandan doctors are also in turn helping treat people in other countries where 38 of them serve. Eight are the doctors working in Rwanda.
One of the surgeons in Rwanda
One of the surgeons in Rwanda
“Every year we do the training. Started with 2 doctors and now 50. The 38 doctors will come to work in March next year. We are happy to have the occasion and to be able treat people with compound fracture. We are getting more doctors,” CHUK managing director, Dr.Théobald Hategekimana.
The number of patients in need of plastic surgery and orthopedics, however, is not yet known but it predetermines the simultaneous turn of professionals to treat them.
“We are in collaboration with other doctors and have come in Kigali to address difficult reconstruction work. The patients are doing well now. We are helping advance health care in Rwanda. There are a lot of patients getting injured and need plastic surgery,” says one of the professionals in plastic surgery and autopedics that is in Rwanda helping to address respective needs.
This exercise is done under the Rwanda Legacy of Hope.
Professional are expecting to continue the training and advisory engagement on improving plastic surgery and autopedics in the country.
