Nigeria: Do SA, Nigeria Have Fewer Cardiologists for Their Populations Than Senegal?

Senegal has a better cardiologists-to-population ratio than countries like South Africa and Nigeria, a prominent Senegalese heart specialist said. We looked closely at the numbers.

Surgeons from a French NGO and the Abidjan Institute of Cardiology perform heart surgery on a child in March 2009. Photo: KAMBOU SIA / AFP

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