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How clubfoot treatment is transforming Senegalese children’s lives – BBC News


About one in 800 people around the world are born with clubfoot, and fewer than 20% of cases are receiving treatment at birth in Senegal.

The country has been a relatively late adopter of Ponseti – a pioneering method of correcting clubfoot – compared with some other African countries.

Senegalese medics have perfected the original concept and are now using it to treat teenagers or even adults who thought they had passed the age for any intervention – transforming the lives of many people born with the condition in the country.

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