title: [Ultrasound in East Africa].
abstract: Ultrasound is poorly established in East Africa because of missing finances and medical staff. The Foundation for medical know how transfer SmW installed in the last 3 years an ultrasound department in all District Hospitals in the South Province Mombasa in Kenya and was teaching the medical staff 2-3 times an year according the guidelines of SGUM and EFSUMB. The project is based on the idea that knowledge transfer is more efficient than money transfer. The project is supervised by public health studies. The first results show that non physicians are able to perform good quality ultrasound examinations. 75% of the obstetrical and 50% of the abdominal ultrasound examinations show therapy-relevant findings. Ultrasound is going to rise to the position of the most important imagine system in developing countries.
authors.affiliation: FMH Allgemeine Medizin, Stiftung für medizinischen Wissenstransfer SmW, Hefenhofen. waltergysel@bluewin.ch
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gysel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000351:Africa, Eastern; D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005260:Female; D005582:Foundations / Q000191:economics*; D006767:Hospitals, District; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008493:Medical Missions / Q000191:economics*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013557:Switzerland; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation*