Madar (Nouakchott) - An Italian medical mission on Monday, November 9, 2026, began a series of open-heart surgeries and cardiac catheterisation procedures at the National Cardiology Center (CNC) in Nouakchott, the center announced.
According to the CNC, the mission is also running training sessions for the center's medical staff, to allow an exchange of expertise and benefit from Italian experience in cardiology and heart surgery.
The center said the visit is part of strengthening health and medical cooperation between Mauritania and Italy, and of its efforts to develop specialised health services and improve the skills of medical and nursing staff in diagnosis, treatment and advanced cardiac procedures.
The CNC did not specify the number of operations scheduled or the length of the mission.
In April, the center announced that a Mauritanian-Italian medical team had performed there the first procedure to break up severe arterial calcifications using the "Rotablator" technique, describing it as the first of its kind in West Africa.
