Senegalese neurosurgeon Seydou Badiane treats everyone he can despite lacking basic supplies

Despite the lack of basic medical equipment and drugs in his native Senegal, neurosurgeon Seydou Badiane treats everyone he can, says Rita de Brún

Senegalese neurosurgeon Seydou Badiane treats everyone he can despite lacking basic supplies

NICK WEBER says “it takes very little effort and money to save lives.” Weber is the founder and president of American Friends for Le Korsa (AFLK), a non-profit that works with Senegalese doctors, teachers, and students.

Weber, a philanthropist, writer, and art historian, was in West Cork’s Glandore when he decided to tell Ireland about Professor Seydou Badiane, a giant of a man who performs neurological surgery in West Africa, under conditions so ferocious they’d make the most seasoned of stoics flinch.

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