October 2025 > Geneva

Shipment of a 20-foot container to the Hôpital de la Paix in Ziguinchor (Senegal)

Our goal was achieved on Saturday, 25 October 2025, with the shipment of four patient trolleys, 30m3 of medical equipment and 900kg of hospital linen to the Hôpital de la Paix in Ziguinchor,
as well as more than 400 medical books to replenish the library of the Ziguinchor Faculty of Medicine.

Thank you to all the enthusiastic and generous anonymous donors…
A huge thank you to LAB8, Geneva.

And for donations, among others, to:

Humatem, (Medical Equipment Donation Bank – Sallanches / France)
the libraries and faculties of the CHUV in Lausanne and the HUGE in Geneva;
the Payerne Hospital;
the Hôpitaux et Cliniques de la Tour, Grangettes, La Plaine and Générale Beaulieu in Geneva.
To Rey Médical, Anklin, Storz and Lexington.

Finally, thank you to all our donors, without whom all this positive energy would not have been possible.

The PSC Committee

APRIL 2025 > ABIDJAN – IVORY COAST

Presentation by Professor Omar Sow at the Ivory Coast Surgical Society conference in Abidjan on 4 April 2025.

Review of the laparoscopic surgery masterclasses in Ziguinchor

JANuary 2025 > SEnEgal

CASAMANCE MISSION – January 2025

5th Masterclass in Laparoscopic Surgery at the “Hôpital de la Paix” and the “Hôpital Régional” in Ziguinchor.

Surgery – Anaesthesia – Radiology – Operating theatre nurses – Pathology – ENT
50 PARTICIPANTS: 22 Doctors – 28 Technicians and Nurses.
21 HOURS OF COURSES – 29 HOURS OF WORKSHOPS – 17 OPERATIONS AND ANESTHESIA – Visit from the Senegalese Minister of Health, Dr Ibrahima SY.

november 2024 > Cameroon

Project to improve the quality of paediatric oncology care.

Mission from 01.11 to 10.11.2024 in Yaoundé, Cameroon

• Patients operated on: 8
• Patients declined: 7 (4 inoperable patients and 3 parental withdrawals)
• Nursing training day: 20 participants
• Nursing training workshops and follow-up care for patients
• 2 Cameroonian surgeons took part and operated on patients
• Swiss team: 1 paediatric surgeon and a paediatric oncology nurse.
• Next mission: January – February 2025

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august 2024 > Senegal

Container of equipment arrives at Hôpital de la Paix (Ziguinchor) :

• Pathology equipment
• Laparoscopy equipment
• Image intensifier

April 2024 > Geneva

Loading a shared container :

• Pathology equipment
• Laparoscopy equipment
• Image intensifier

bound for the Hôpital de la Paix in Ziguinchor.

December 2023 > Geneva

Foundation of the Association Partenaires Santé Chirurgie

September 2023 > Senegal

Evaluation mission :

Prof. Barbara Wildhaber & Mrs Sophie Inglin, together with Prof. Cheikh Diouf, are planning to set up a Paediatric Surgery Unit at the Ziguinchor Regional Hospital.

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APRIL 2023 > Senegal

• 2nd Masterclass in Surgery, Anaesthesia and Laparoscopic Instrumentation at the Ziguinchor Peace Hospital.
  Evaluation and planning of the ultrasound project for midwives in the Oussouye district.

JANUARY 2023 > Geneva – CONGO

Sending equipment:

• Operating table and ultrasound machine to Isiro, Congo DRC

JANUARY 2023 > Geneva

• Dr Sow’s visit to Geneva
• 1st contact with SFITS

August 2022 > Geneva

Informal creation of the Casamance Health Project in Geneva
in the Lab8 laboratory

October 2025 > Geneva

Shipment of a 20-foot container to the Hôpital de la Paix in Ziguinchor (Senegal)

Our goal was achieved on Saturday, 25 October 2025, with the shipment of four patient trolleys, 30m3 of medical equipment and 900kg of hospital linen to the Hôpital de la Paix in Ziguinchor,
as well as more than 400 medical books to replenish the library of the Ziguinchor Faculty of Medicine.

Thank you to all the enthusiastic and generous anonymous donors…
A huge thank you to LAB8, Geneva.

And for donations, among others, to:

Humatem, (Medical Equipment Donation Bank – Sallanches / France)
the libraries and faculties of the CHUV in Lausanne and the HUGE in Geneva;
the Payerne Hospital;
the Hôpitaux et Cliniques de la Tour, Grangettes, La Plaine and Générale Beaulieu in Geneva.
To Rey Médical, Anklin, Storz and Lexington.

Finally, thank you to all our donors, without whom all this positive energy would not have been possible.

The PSC Committee

APRIL 2025 > ABIDJAN – IVORY COAST

Presentation by Professor Omar Sow at the Ivory Coast Surgical Society conference in Abidjan on 4 April 2025.

Review of the laparoscopic surgery masterclasses in Ziguinchor

January 2025 > Senegal

CASAMANCE MISSION – January 2025

5th Masterclass in Laparoscopic Surgery at the “Hôpital de la Paix” and the “Hôpital Régional” in Ziguinchor.

Surgery – Anaesthesia – Radiology – Operating theatre nurses – Pathology – ENT
50 PARTICIPANTS: 22 Doctors – 28 Technicians and Nurses.
21 HOURS OF COURSES – 29 HOURS OF WORKSHOPS – 17 OPERATIONS AND ANESTHESIA – Visit from the Senegalese Minister of Health, Dr Ibrahima SY.