Factors Decisive for Our Success
The first factor that has been decisive for our success is the vision — deriving from the deep experience of Africa underpinning the project — that proposes a concrete solution, immediately regarded by the collective imagination as a challenge and objective almost within reach.
Further concrete critical factors were:
− preliminary mapping;
− the immediate felicitous choice of the most reliable — and, in this specific case, indispensable local interlocutor;
− mobility and modularity, fundamental factors nowadays, allowing almost completebspatio-temporal flexibility;
− willingness to interact and create synergies with other organizations present in the area;
− the possible development of the modular aspects for precise parallel comparisons.
In conclusion, the Africa Project is both a model and an opportunity that the African nations, with their limited hospital facilities and remote areas lacking in medical service, the Western countries and the international development agencies must sooner or later take into consideration, especially if they want to replace the global funds distributed to governments in this continent (sometimes with uncertain results) with an adequate number of functioning mobile units targeted at precise health issues (regarding areas, populations, diseases and years of treatment), identifiable in agreement with the local health authorities. This is the first step towards transparency of costs, greater certainty of the results and the possibility of careful monitoring of the situation of public health, effectiveness of the action taken and progress made.
