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Surgical Care for Northeast India: Take Home Message from a ARSICON 2017 Session

By Dr. J. Gnanaraj | Published: Dec 2017 Volume: |

Several current challenges in delivering rural surgery to underserved populations of the north-eastern states of India were discussed at the 2017 Association of Rural Surgeons of India Conferences (ARSICON) this November. Rural surgery needs to be attractive for both

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Take Home Messages from the 2015 WHO – Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) Meeting in Geneva

By Dr. J. Gnanaraj | Published: Jan 2016 Volume: |

A Personal Account by Dr. J. Gnanaraj BACKGROUND The tenth meeting of the Global Initiative on Emergency and Essential Surgical care [GIEESC] had the primary objective of deciding on the roadmap for the implementation of the World Health Assembly resolution No. 68.15 of the World Health Organization [WHO]. The author… 

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Innovations in Surgical Care for the Poor: Presented at the Canadian Conference on Global Health 2014

By Dr. J. Gnanaraj | Published: Dec 2014 Volume: |

Objective Advanced surgical care is not available to most people in rural areas because of reasons related to “Accessibility, Availability and Affordability.” We describe how the Surgical Services Initiative helped to address these problems and make advanced surgical care available to the poor and the needy over three decades, in… 

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