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Connecting cities and communities with the Sustainable Development Goals

2.3 Results
Intended benefits for the people of Africa included:

▪ capacity building by way of imparting education to
▪ 10 000 African students over a 5-year period (2009-14):
ƒ 2000 in postgraduate programmes,
ƒ 3000 in undergraduate programmes, and

ƒ 5000 in skill-enabling certificate, diploma and post graduate programmes
▪ tele-medicine components:
▪ online medical consultation for one hour every day to each country for five years

▪ offline advice for five patients per day to each country for five years
▪ CME for practicing doctors and working nurses/physicians’ assistants, in order to update their
medical knowledge and upgrade their clinical skills.
Results achieved:
▪ More than 21 000 students from African nations are pursuing undergraduate/postgraduate
programmes from Indian universities.
▪ By October 2016, nearly 5 700 learning sessions were held.

▪ CME sessions from Indian hospitals started for all countries on a regular basis on 22 April 2009.
▪ By October 2016, about 5 650 CME sessions in English and around 750 CME sessions in French were
conducted.
ƒ At times 20 to 50 doctors attended the live CME sessions.
▪ By October 2016, 750 online medical consultations had taken place.

Sustainability of the programme
An important feature of this programme is that five leading hospitals and five leading universities of Africa,
one from each region, are also a part of this programme. The objective being that there would be a
capacity- building process throughout the duration of the programme, so that after some time these
institutions would be able to fully take over the programme, without the support of India. This makes this
programme unique in the world.

Figure 10-4 Recognition of the project

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