Dr Ernest Robert Toé sacred golden caduceus

The second edition of the African Health Awards was held on Sunday November 24, 2024 in Ouagadougou. A total of around ten resource people in the health field have seen their efforts rewarded.

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The African Health Awards aim to celebrate the excellence and commitment of health actors in Burkina Faso, by promoting the efforts of professionals, health structures, and local initiatives which work to improve health services. . As a result, Kévin Zongo, president of the organizing committee of the African Health Awards, specified that for this year 2024, at least ten people were decorated and seven trophies were awarded to these health professionals who distinguished themselves. in an efficient and very useful exercise of their profession.

« For this 2024 edition, the particularity was a greater openness of professional orders compared to last year. Last year we only collaborated with five professional orders, this year we were able to open up to associations involved in the health field, notably medical technologists, opticians and other institutions. “, he detailed.

In addition to this, Kévin Zongo explained that the selection criteria focused firstly on excellence in the practice of the profession, then on performance within institutions and rigor in care. At the end of the deliberation, Dr Ernest Robert Toé, dental surgeon and promoter of the “Eras” dental clinic in Ouagadougou, was crowned the 2024 golden caduceus of the African Health Awards.

With over thirty years of experience, he expressed his gratitude to the African Health Awards for recognizing his work. “ It is with great emotion that I receive this trophy. It is with a lot of gratitude but above all a lot of humility that I receive this because it still recognizes the merit of more than thirty years of work in both the parapublic and the private sector. It is with great emotion that I receive this but it is mainly to magnify the idea.

The idea of ​​encouraging health professionals who are not always at the forefront of things but in the shadows who do tremendous work. Especially with this period that we are experiencing which is a period of resilience for all but it calls us to be very humble and to recognize that everything we do is for the well-being of the health of the populations. “, he admitted.

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Several other people and structures received distinctions. These include, among others, Dr Kader Bamogo who received a caduceus in the research and innovation category. In the resilience category, the silver caduceus went to Dr Éloi Tiendrébéogo. The U-Pharma structure received a silver caduceus in the technological innovation category.

Aminata Catherine SANOU

Burkina 24

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