• Login
    • Login
    Advanced Search
    View Item 
    •   AMREF IR Home
    • Research Papers
    • General - GEN
    • General - GEN
    • View Item
    •   AMREF IR Home
    • Research Papers
    • General - GEN
    • General - GEN
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    "Supplying the Surgical Needs of Developing Countries"

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    The proceedings of a Symposium (3.765Mb)
    Publication Date
    1977
    Author
    Wood, Michael
    Type
    Conference proceeding
    Item Usage Stats
    7
    views
    1
    downloads
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract/Overview

    Introduction It has been my good fortune over the last 30 years to have connections with some 75 rural hospitals in East Africa and I have been able to visit others in different parts of Africa and the Middle East and briefly in South America and Asia. Looking through the annual reports of a representative group of these hospitals in East Africa I have tried to discover the pattern of surgical disease which occurs. These hospitals may be Government hospitals or Mission hospitals, usually have an average of around 100 beds and serve a population of 250,000 people. They are staffed by one or two or three doctors assisted by nurses and medical auxiliaries. The one doctor hospital is something we would like to see disappear and this will occur directly recruitment is adequate which in turn depends on the number of graduates being turned out by the Medical School. I shall concentrate my remarks on the district and mission hospitals as these are the institutions which take the brunt of the surgical load. The situation of provincial hospitals and central reference hospitals is a somewhat different problem.

    Subject/Keywords
    Epidemiology; Hospitals; East Africa; Middle East; East Africa; Mission; Laboratory; Blood; Urine; Schistosomiasis; Anaemia; Malnutrition; Malaria; Xrays; Radiologist
    Series
    ;The proceedings of a Symposium held at the XIXth Annual Meeting of the International Federation of Surgical Colleges in Pallas, Texas, 1977.
    Permalink
    https://repository.amref.ac.ke/handle/123456789/348
    Collections
    • General - GEN [355]

    Amref International University. All rights reserved | Copyright © 2021 
    Contact Us | Send Feedback

     

     

    Quick Links
    Amref International UniversityAmref Health AfricaKLISC

    Browse

    All of AMREF IRCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsType

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Amref International University. All rights reserved | Copyright © 2021 
    Contact Us | Send Feedback