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New Recover Foundation training project at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona

Continuing with our commitment to training health professionals from Cameroon, this February we had Earnest Nshukwi, a Cameroonian imaging technician, in Spain, at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona.

The neurologist Jesús María Juega Mariño, together with other specialists from his unit, have been involved in this initiative in which they have hosted and trained Earnest Nshukwi in various echo-Doppler ultrasound techniques (supra-aortic trunks, transcranial echo-Doppler and cardiac ultrasound studies) for the treatment of stroke patients.

Thanks to this training developed in the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in BarcelonaEarnest will be able to use the techniques he has learned at his home hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital in Dschang, western Cameroon, when he returns from his two-week trip. For Earnest, the work of the Recover Foundation is "a great work of training health personnel as it helps to provide the best medical care to patients in Cameroon".

In Africa, there are currently 981 stroke cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 981 stroke cases are detected per 100 000 population, which is a high incidence and prevalence. incidence and prevalence. The detection of stroke in the country is very complicated. According to Earnest, "We are faced with insufficient equipment, infrastructure and expertise. equipment, infrastructure and expertise. Another factor is that patients are not aware of the health problems they have and go to health centres when it is too late. health centres when it is already too late.

At the Recover Foundation Foundation we seek to reverse this situation through our training programmes so that Cameroonian so that Cameroonian professionals are prepared to deal with and detect cases of detect cases of stroke in time and with guarantees for the patient. Earnest Earnest believes that there is still a lot to be done, "health centres must be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art equipment, and health workers need to improve their skills to do their job. their skills to do their job. To do this, health workers communities so that patients will come and use the services offered by hospitals. the services offered by hospitals.

But it is not only the lack of technology is a problem. The cost of treatment is so high that many Cameroonians cannot afford it. many Cameroonians cannot afford it. Earnest argues that "the cost of treatment must be affordable so that patients can afford it. cost of treatment must be affordable so that patients can take full advantage of the facilities. patients can get the most out of the facilities.

At the Recover Foundation we continue with our training programme we started in 2008. Since then, we have financed studies for more than 250 African professionals, with a direct investment of 190,000 euros.

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