Michigan State University Commemorates Half-Century Partnership With African Nations: In the southern African nation of Malawi, the ability to save lives by accurately diagnosing and treating malarial seizures just got a little easier. In the past 12 months, officials from Michigan State University, working under the auspices of the school’s African Studies Center, set up a malaria studies center.
At the core of the center is a CAT scan machine MSU encouraged General Electric to donate to the Malawian people. In exchange for the donation, MSU agreed to pay for the construction of the climate-controlled building where the scanner is housed. The university dispatched several experts to Malawi to teach technicians and radiologists how to use the machine. Then the university installed a satellite dish to help those radiologists and technicians liaise regularly with their East Lansing , Mich., counterparts on particularly difficult cases. Malaria kills an estimated 1.5 million people in Africa each year, according to the World Health Organization.
