The international skeletal society outreach programme in Tunisia 2011

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An ISS outreach program was held in Tunisia in June 2011, in collaboration with the local organizers Prof. Najla Mnif, Chair of the Department of Radiology at Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis, and Prof. Hatem Rajhi, Vice Chair of the same institution. Charles Nicolle Hospital in Tunis is a general primary-care hospital and with 1010 beds, the largest in Tunisia. The hospital is named after the winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize for medicine; Charles Nicolle identified lice as a transmitter of epidemic typhus while working at the Pasteur Institute in Tunis. The ISS outreach meeting was held in Gammarth, which is in the north of Tunisia, 20 kilometers from Tunis, and is surrounded by a dense forest to the south, the Sebkha of Ariana to the west, and the Gulf of Tunis to the north and east, on June 24–25th 2011. Gammarth is only a few kilometers from the great ancient city of Carthage, one of the most historic places in Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site [1]. …