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Kenya blazing trail with first keyhole surgery school in Africa
Dr Rafique Parker (centre) looks at a monitor while performing minimal access surgery at ICMAS in Nairobi. PHOTO | SARAH OOKO
Kenya has blazed the trail in modern medicine by opening Africa’s first training facility for minimal access surgery (MAS), allowing doctors to learn use of the technology that in the long-term will reduce costs due to shorter hospital stays.
Dr Rafique Parker – a pioneer of the technology in Kenya – established the International Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (ICMAS) based in Nairobi in 2011.
