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PubMed Google Scholar. Damien P, et al. How are surgical theatres in Africa utilized? A review of five years of services at a district hospital in Ghana. Trop Doct. Mungandi I. Quality surgical care for rural dwellers: the visiting option.

Photo courtesy of D. Ed Mew 1 Email author 1. Examinations started in , and since then 34 fully qualified surgeons have been passed. This code of conduct signed recently by more than 20 NGOs demonstrates awareness of the detrimental effect that employing health care workers from areas was clearly shown in an audit of all the patients being existing health systems can have.

This is partly explained by the high trauma rate Interviews of Ghanaian medical school graduates found among male persons of those admitted with head injury, that the single most important factor that would influence 61 were male and 6 female. However, it is also thought their decision to remain in the country would be the pres- that owing to social and cultural reasons it is more difficult ence of a training program leading to specialty qualification for women to access surgery in this area.

A study of the [23]. Of the 38 obstetrics and gynecology specialists who experience of women who have obstetric fistulas in Niger completed their training locally between and , all found that many women had to travel to more than one but one had remained in the country, and most were health facility to obtain the required care, thereby working in the public sector.

Early results from the newly increasing both cost and delay [30]. In a 5-year series surgeons trained exclusively in the region tend to stay there of patients admitted for emergency surgery in a Nigerian Fig. Furthermore, the overall mortality was Access to surgery Infrastructure and facilities An Ethiopian study found that travel and cost were the most important reasons given for failure to seek ophthalmic Adequate facilities are crucial to the provision of basic surgery for visual impairment or blindness [28].

The surgical care. Even the best trained and motivated surgical inequality in access to surgery between urban and rural team cannot function without appropriate infrastructure. More than half did not have basic skin and soft tissue Since , a total of OCOs have been trained, and 82 sutures available on the day of inspection [32]. A com- are still in clinical practice in Malawi. This is perhaps not surprising as most of the surgeons was started in Mozambique in Surgical 25 district hospitals do not have a surgeon.

During the early s, medical obstetric care did not do so. They learned surgery simply times that of the United Kingdom [34]. A private facility was the only place that pro- been done by small numbers of highly trained clinicians. Preventing the need for surgery Task shifting It is obvious that preventing accidents will reduce the need Surgeons need to be proactive in bridging the gap between for surgery on the victims. Improving road safety through urban and rural populations.

One of the ways in which education, speed limits and enforcements, vehicle inspec- issues of access to surgery in rural locations in Africa is tions, safety belts, crash helmets for motorcyclists, and through task shifting to nonmedical staff. A Cochrane review has found that oxytocin is level, whereas none of the medically qualified doctors who the gold standard treatment for preventing postpartum were there at the beginning of the 7 years had remained hemorrhage [45]; unfortunately, it is injectable and requires [36].

An economic evaluation of these same surgically refrigeration, which at the moment is not available in many trained nonphysicians found that the cost per major rural areas of Africa. Additionally, postoperative mor- after delivering a baby reduces the relative risk of a large tality rates achieved by these surgically trained nonphysi- bleed [46]; it is therefore recommended that this medica- cians are excellent, at 0.

The need for complicated surgery to treat a vesicovaginal A study during the s estimated that In a Nigerian teaching Malawi is another country where nonmedically qualified hospital, the mortality was In , Malawi had only one often requires trichiasis surgery for inverted eyelashes to orthopedic surgeon for the whole country. In an effort to prevent corneal scarring once it is established. The increase in tuberculosis TB cases seen surgery, antibiotics, face washing, environmental improve- goes hand in hand with the HIV epidemic.

Intraabdominal ment [52—54]. In a 4-week series in a Malawi hospital none period [62]. An Ivory Coast series described four such of the patients with burns resulting from epileptic seizures patients, with two fatalities shortly after surgery [63]. Identification of people suffering need to be encouraged and taught how to protect them- with epilepsy and treatment with a reliable drug supply can selves against it and other blood-borne viruses.

A study in help reduce the number of burns resulting from seizures. Nigeria found that Fire safety and promoting safer use of fire and stoves is On examination of the used goggles with a hand lens, also likely to reduce the number of people suffering burns Similar findings and requiring care [12].

This is an anesthesia issue that has had an effect on ity. A structured questionnaire in a Nigerian antenatal access to surgery. The women least likely to accept a cesarean also have been found to have reservations about operating section were most likely to be poorly educated and had on patients with HIV due to the risk of acquiring HIV. In had previous successful vaginal deliveries [56]. Similarly, the same study, Understanding the beliefs of patients and their caretakers are important when improving access to Surgery and traditional healers surgery.

If surgical implicated in their choice of the traditional bonesetter over provision is increased but is not twinned with education that of the hospital [69]. A 7-year retrospective analysis of programs to raise its acceptability, providing the service the cause of limb amputation at a Nigerian teaching hos- might be futile. Patients presenting with tetanus following treatment for wounds and fracture by a tradi- A seroprevalence study of HIV and hepatitis B in patients tional bonesetter have also been reported [72].

A 2-year with open trauma wounds in north central Nigeria found prospective study compared the outcomes of tibial shaft that This has huge 1-day training program compared to traditional bonesetters safety implications for surgical health care workers. These findings were replicated [60]. The emergence of multiresistant bacteria will provide in another study [74]. If surgical services are to be improved, the provision of safe and effective anesthesia is essential.

A Zimbabwean study found that the avoidable mortality rate AMR for Research and training anesthesia was 2. Publication in cited journals is often anesthesias. In the or two citations.

Those that had two or more are shown in United Kingdom there were 20 anesthetists per , Fig. In contrast, Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account?

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