Siemens Healthineers has partnered with RAD-AID to support radiology education in Ghana and two other African countries as part of its commitment to improving access to care around the world and transforming care delivery.
The program will ensure that targeted educational gaps in staff training for medical imaging equipment in low-resource settings in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania are quickly filled.
Siemens Healthineers is financially supporting RAD-AID activities in the selected African countries- Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania- with multiple potential activities in additional countries in the future.
The strategic partnership between RAD-AID and Siemens Healthineers will focus mostly on providing access to affordable education.
Speaking about the partnership, Ole Per Maloy, CEO of Siemens Healthineers, Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa, said Siemens Healthineers is privileged to promote health education in Africa.
“Continuous education and training in the field of radiology is essential to ensure quality healthcare and accurate diagnosis. We at Siemens Healthineers are proud to support RAD-AID’s radiology education program, this initiative will provide essential training for healthcare professionals in Africa.”
Ole Per Maloy
The nonprofit charity offers a broad portfolio of volunteer programs to further the education of radiology professionals in low-resource settings.
Partnership to ensure Rapid deployment of medical equipment
The partnership with RAD-AID will allow rapid deployment of resources to ensure a staff adequately trained in medical imaging equipment.
“The collaboration between RAD-AID and Siemens Healthineers is an exciting, high-impact outreach program for radiology education and health equity to help low-resource medical institutions in low- and middle-income countries.”
Daniel J. Mollura, Founder and CEO of RAD-AID International
Challenges facing the region to be addressed by the association include a shortage of qualified medical providers and workers in the field, financial constraints that restrict investment in medical imaging education, and poor hospital infrastructure in Africa, including poor internet connection.
Radiology is part of nearly every segment of health care, including pediatrics, obstetrics, medicine, and surgery, making the absence of radiology a critical piece of the global health disparity.
RAD-AID is a not-for-profit public service established in 2008 to respond to the need for more imaging and radiology technology in resource-limited regions and underserved communities around the world.
Since then it has grown to include more than 14,000 volunteers from 146 countries, serving 91 hospitals in more than 40 countries with a mission to increase and improve radiology in low- and middle-income countries, as well as in underserved areas of countries.
Siemens Healthineers AG, a German medical device company, is the parent company for several medical technology companies and is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany.
Siemens was the first to combine positron emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography (CT). By creating this hybrid imaging system, Siemens combined the PET scanner’s ability to visualize biological processes of life with a CT system’s anatomical image of tissues and organs.
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