TRAINING ETHIOPIAN SURGEONS 

Under the guidance of expert surgeons from FOCOS Hospital in Ghana, our Ethiopian spine surgeons-in-training lengthened magnetic growing rods and operated on 16 Ethiopian youths with spine deformities from age 8-14. They have all had had spine surgery in the past and are now undergoing a procedure called ‘lengthening’ where we allow them to grow by lengthening their rods. We have well over 100 youths in “growing rods,” probably the largest growing rod group in the world.

August 19, 2021