[afro-nets] Basic surgery skills to save lives and prevent disability (2)

["Claudio Schuftan" <cschuftan@phmovement.org>]

Cross-posted from :"[health-vn discussion group]" <health-vn@cairo.anu.edu.au>

The Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) was established in a meeting held at WHO/HQ, Geneva on 8-9 Dec 2005 with the objective of bringing together focal persons in other WHO departments, policy-makers, health providers and NGO's interested in capacity building of emergency and essential surgical and anaesthesia skills. The report of the meeting is available at http://www.who.int/surgery [*]

The 2nd meeting of the GIEESC was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, 24-25 Sept. 2007. There were 90 participants from 38 countries, and representing health providers, policy makers, professional societies, NGO's, epidemiologists, health economists, donors and partners in official relations with WHO, and relevant focal persons of other WHO depts. The note for the media is available at http://www.who.int/surgery [*]

The direct URLs for the above report and media note are:
http://www.who.int/surgery/mission/GIEESC2005_Report.pdf  (600kb)
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2007/np30/en/index.html

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Vern Weitzel 
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