In March 2013—having retired 4 months earlier—I received a call from the chairman of the German non-government relief organization (NGO) Etiopia-Witten Association*, asking if I could teach echocardiography in the cardiology unit of an Ethiopian University. Four months later, in July 2013, I found myself sitting in an aeroplane travelling to Ethiopia for a 6-week-stay. This was organized by the German NGO and financed by the German Senior Expert Service (SES), who sends retired specialis...............
Just published in European Heart Journal from chairman of Ethiopia-Witten assoc.