The six-week assignment of neonatologist Antonia Bartetzko marked the official start of the GZI’s ‘Hospital Partnerships’ programme between the Charité Berlin and the Referral Hospital in Thimphu, Bhutan.
The ward for premature babies and sick newborns in Asmara has existed since 2002 and has been supervised and supported by two ARCHEMED teams several times a year since the organisation was founded in 2010.
Our international operation centre for children, the IOCCA, has existed in the capital Asmara since 2002. It was conceived by Dr Andreas Urban, the former director of the German Children’s Heart Centre in Sankt Augustin.
In cooperation with the Working Group on Paediatric Oncology in Emerging Countries and the International Society for Paediatric Oncology, ARCHEMED will implement initial programmes to combat cancer in Eritrea.