Doctor on a mission in the heart of the savannah
15 January 2021 - Enrico Davoli, general surgeon specialist of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, has just landed in Africa, the place that had enchanted him since he was a child but which had rejected him after a life that had become too hard. Since January, Dr. Davoli has a new mission: to start the foundation of a center for women's and children's health in Tanzania, with special attention to the prevention of female tumors and neuromotor disability.
Just two years ago, Davoli had accepted the proposal of Tiziana Bernardi, member of the Board of Directors UCBM and founder of the Onlus Golfini Rossi, to accompany her to Africa together with thirty undergraduates of the University to engage in the care of the most vulnerable. In March 2020, however, the new project for the creation of the center should have started but which unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic delayed until January 2021. With the arrival in Tanzania, everything finally begins to take shape: members of the community have been hired scientific sciences and the teachers of the Milan Polytechnic. For the surgeon on a mission, this is the first step towards a big dream: "I chose surgery and Africa because it's the place where I feel happy where I find purity in human relationships, where despite poverty people always have a reason to dance in the evening" .
L'Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for several years it has been helping developing countries, such as Tanzania, Peru and Madagascar, and is committed to renewing its commitment to health-food assistance and education activities, inter-university research programs and projects for the construction of infrastructures of social interest in developing countries.
