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on dermatology with Professor Ousmane Faye, Director of the Bamako Dermatology Hospital, and Ms Lalla Aïcha Diakité, Chair of the albinism charity Solidarité pour l’Insertion des Albinos au Mali (SIAM).
Providing a high-quality
INTERVIEW
DR. MARIEM KEBE
skin allergy specialist and General Secretary
of the Mauritanian Society of Dermatology (SMD)
SMD is a partner in the teledermatology programme launched in Mauritania with help from Fondation Pierre Fabre. How did the project progress in 2020?
We have now completed the first phase of the rollout in three regions with 13 health facilities: 10 health centres and 3 hospitals. We have trained the health workers and provided them with all the tools
available on the remote diagnosis platform. In 2020, three supervision assignments allowed us to meet around 1,200 patients face-to-face.
In total, more than 1,700
cases were uploaded to the platform, with an average diagnosis turnaround
time of 7 hours.
Has the health crisis disrupted the rollout
of the programme?
The start of the project was delayed for administrative reasons, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our work was that health facilities saw a sudden and drastic fall in patient attendance.
What promise does teledermatology hold out
for a country like Mauritania?
This is an essential issue for patients with no access to adequate medical care, and very few regions of this country have any local dermatologists.
Some Mauritanians have no choice but to travel more than 1,000 km for a follow-up appointment for atopic dermatitis or acne. So for the Mauritanian Dermatology Society, the Fondation Pierre Fabre partnership is a unique opportunity to provide a high-quality medical service to population groups who would otherwise have nothing at all.
Togo and Burkina Faso are both now working on programmes to improve care for albinism sufferers.
medical service to
population groups who
would otherwise
have nothing at all.
GOOD TO KNOW
A centre of excellence in Bamako
The Foundation is supporting the skills and expertise development programme run by the Bamako Dermatology Hospital in Mali, which aspires to become a centre of excellence
in sub-Saharan Africa for dermatology care, training and research. Construction of a new consultation unit is currently at the project stage. Providing care for people with albinism is under consideration as part of this process.
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