Seven of our microscopes in Rwanda

Under the direction of the ENT physician Dr. Dirk Heinrich and with financial support from "Ein Herz für Kinder", a training centre for ENT medicine for Rwanda is being built in Kigali. The aid project "ENT Doctors for Rwanda", which was started in 2009, aims to train and further educate Rwandan doctors in the field of otorhinolaryngology. Since then, German teams of doctors have been travelling regularly to the East African country. Dr. Dirk Heinrich, the President of the German Professional Association of Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors, has also been involved in several aid missions in Rwanda.

Already in spring 2014 it was one of our portable microscopes, which Dr. Heinrich had purchased for the medical equipment of the ENT department at the "University Teaching Hospital of Kigali". And in April 2016 two more could be delivered to Kigali and one to Butare in the south.

The current highlight is the delivery of another three microscopes to this country, which is still marked by the consequences of the civil war and genocide. Two of them form the central equipment for the two temporal bone laboratory stations at the military hospital in Kigali, where microsurgical ear surgery is taught and practiced. The third will be given to the first Rwandan ENT specialist who has completed his training under the aegis of "ENT Doctors for Rwanda" for his work already begun in the city of Rwamangana in the east of Rwanda with its 50,000 inhabitants.