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2.3 Results

Intended Benefits to the people of Africa included:
 Capacity building by way of imparting Education to
 10,000 African students over 5 year period (2009-14):
▪ 2000 in PG Programs,

▪ 3000 in UG Programs and
▪ 5000 in skill enabling Certificate, Diploma and PGD Programs
 Tele-medicine components:
 Online medical consultation for one hour everyday to each country for 5 years

 Offline advice for 5 patients per day to each country for 5 years
 Continuing Medical Education (CME) for practicing Doctors and working Nurses/Physicians’
Assistants, to update their medical knowledge and upgrade their clinical skills.
Results achieved
 More than 21,000 students from Africa Nations are pursuing UG/PG Programs from Indian
Universities
 Nearly 5,700 learning sessions held till Oct 2016
 CME (Continued Medical Education) Sessions from Indian Hospitals have been started for all
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countries on regular basis from 22 April 2009
 About 5,650 CME Sessions in English & about 750 CME Sessions in French have been conducted up
to October 2016
At times 20 to 50 doctors attend the live CME Sessions
 750 Online Medical consultations have taken place till October 2016.

Sustainability of the Program
An important feature of this program is that five leading hospitals and five leading universities of Africa one
from each region, are also a part of this program. The objective being that there would be a capacity building
process during the duration of the program, so that after sometime these institutions would be able to fully
take over the program for future, without the support of India.

This makes this program unique in the world.

Figure 4  Recognition of the project

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