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Consciously cutting to the bone of SA’s surgical/anaesthetic delivery

Chris Bateman

Abstract


A critical mass of key surgeons and anaesthesiologists met at the University of the Witwatersrand in December to start gauging the country’s paucity of access to safe, affordable, surgical and anaesthetic care, guided by recently crafted global improvement templates.

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Chris Bateman, Health and Medical Publishing Group, South Africa

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Keywords

Surgical and anaesthetic care; South Africa; Lancet Commission on Global Surgery; University of the Witwatersrand

Cite this article

South African Medical Journal 2016;106(2):132-134. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i2.10526

Article History

Date submitted: 2016-01-09
Date published: 2016-01-10

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