Surgery in low-income countries during crisis: experience at Médecins Sans Frontières facilities in 20 countries between 2008 and 2014

Trop Med Int Health. 2015 Aug;20(8):968-71. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12523. Epub 2015 May 1.

Authors

Miguel Trelles¹, Lynette Dominguez¹, Barclay T Stewart^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Surgery, Anesthesia, Gynecology and Emergency Medicine Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium.
² Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.

PMID: 25877854
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12523

No abstract available

Keywords: disaster; global surgery; humanitarian; quality improvement; war.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Anesthesia
Developing Countries*
Disasters*
General Surgery / standards*
Global Health*
Humans
Income
International Cooperation*
Poverty*
Quality Improvement
Warfare*