Co-founder of the association Partenaires Santé Chirurgie (PSC), LAB8 has been leading since 2022 a humanitarian mission aimed at creating a functional pathology laboratory in Casamance, in the south of Senegal, where no such facility previously existed.

In the absence of a local laboratory, patients operated on in Casamance had to have their samples sent to Dakar, a process that already took several days. The tissue analysis, the writing of the reports, and their return to the attending physicians could thus take several weeks, or even months. This delay jeopardised the chances of effective treatment for many patients.

Thanks to the dedication of doctors from Ziguinchor and Geneva, as well as donations of advanced equipment and the training of local staff, PSC and LAB8 SA have enabled the opening of an operational pathology laboratory in Ziguinchor, within the Hôpital de la Paix.