MAURITANIA EXPANSION OF MEDICAL DEGREES STARTS TO BEAR FRUIT
January 1st, 2016
NEWLY trained medical graduates are now receiving degrees for studies completed within Mauritania, following an expansion of medicine higher education in this impoverished north-western Africa and largely desert country.
Mauritania has few doctors. Its 3.89 million people is served by just 0.12 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, according to 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics.
A key problem until now has been the fact that Mauritanian doctors have not been trained within the country. Looking at all health professionals, the country’s 17 hospitals are ...
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