The International Symposium was placed under the very high patronage of H.E. Mr. Macky SALL, President of the Republic of Senegal and under the chairmanship of Mr. Abdoulaye Diouf SARR, Minister of Health of Senegal.
The International Symposium was organized by the Government of Senegal and supported by Mercy Ships in partnership with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, the West African College of Surgeons, and the international non-governmental organization Smile Train.
Regional and international partners with established and recognized credibility in the field of global surgery were affiliated at the scientific level: the College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, the World Surgery Organization Lifebox, the Program on Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard University, the Center for Global Surgery at McGill University in Canada, and the Institute for Global Surgery in Ireland.