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The evidence needed to make surgery a global health priority.
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journal contribution
posted on 2019-11-22, 15:45 authored by Ruairi F. Brugha, Leon Bijlmakers, Eric Borgstein, John Kachimba, COST-Africa ConsortiumIn their policy analysis, Yusra Ribhi Shawar and colleagues (August, 2015) outline the complex responses needed to make surgery a global health priority, highlighting as a major challenge that “consensus needs to be reached on solutions”. Professional interests might have forestalled consensus on the need to train and supervise non-surgeons to deliver surgical services in places where surgeons cannot be retained. However, sceptics are right to call, and donors to wait, for evidence on the feasibility, safety, cost-effectiveness, and outcomes of such models.