Essential Surgery: The Way Forward.

CONCLUSION: A basic package of essential surgical care interventions is imperative to provide structure for scaling up training and building essential health services in remote and rural areas of LMICs. NPCs, a health cadre predominant in SSA, require training, mentoring, and monitoring. The cost of such training is vastly more efficient than the expensive training of a few polyvalent or specialist surgeons, who will not be sufficient in numbers within the next few generations. Moreover, these practitioners are used to working in the districts and are much less prone to gravitate elsewhere. The use of these NPCs performing "Essential Surgery" is a feasible route to deal with the almost total lack of primary surgical care in LMICs. PMID: 25566979 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Rural Remote Health - January 8, 2015 Category: Rural Health Authors: Henry JA, Bem C, Grimes C, Borgstein E, Mkandawire N, Thomas WE, Gunn SW, Lane RH, Cotton MH Tags: World J Surg Source Type: research