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Improving global access to safe surgery requires training local clinicians

28/5/2019

 
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Kenneth Mealy, RCSI President (centre), with SURG-Africa team members
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​Our Global Surgery Seminar stressed the importance of training and supervising local surgical clinicians in the drive to improve global access to safe surgery.

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G4 Alliance Permanent Council Meeting 2019

18/5/2019

 
Advocating for sustainable supervision systems for district clinicians at the latest G4 gathering

SURG-Africa’s work was presented at the G4 Alliance Permanent Council Meeting, which took place in Geneva in May 2019, highlighting some of the ways to increase access to safe surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa. We stressed the importance of mobilising specialist surgeons, predominantly working only in urban centres, through regular visits to district hospitals to build the capacities of local surgical teams and to bring their expertise closer to hard to reach communities in rural areas.

Read the full presentation here.

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