Ouagadougou: The Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT) on Thursday offered an extracorporeal circulation machine to the Tengandogo University Hospital Center (CHU-T) to contribute to the improvement of the technical platform for cardiac operations at the Burkina Faso.
‘This donation aims to contribute to improving the technical platform for cardiac operations in Burkina Faso,’ inform the communications services of the Ministry of Health.
For Dr Adama Sawadogo, cardiovascular surgeon at the Tengandogo University Hospital Center (CHU-T), this is a latest generation device which will allow the Tengandogo hospital to go beyond routine operations and to carry out more complex operations which could, one day, go as far as heart transplantation.
Thanks to this extracorporeal circulation machine, the Tengandogo University Hospital has been able to successfully operate on 40 people with open hearts since the end of October, he said.
According to the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly (ALT), Dr Ou
smane Bougouma, thanks to this machine, Burkina Faso becomes the second country in the sub-region to have a technical platform capable of performing open heart surgery. .
Dr Bougouma also stressed that this equipment will help avoid certain medical evacuations, which will allow the State to make savings.
The Minister of Health and Public Hygiene, Dr. Robert Kargougou, expressed his gratitude to the President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly for this delivery of equipment to the CHU-T.
Source: Burkina Information Agency