TY  - JOUR
T1  - Facilities for surgery exist in ghana, but skills are lacking: Comment on “assessing the surgical and obstetrics-gynecology workload of medical officers”
AU  -  McCord C
Y1  - 2012/06/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2012.455
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 548
EP  - 549
VL  - 147
IS  - 6
N2  - 
We know that a sizable part of the world's “disease burden” is owing to surgical conditions. Several assessments have estimated the years of life lost to death or disability from surgically treatable disease at around 10% of the total years lost to the world's population.1 We believe that this burden is at least as great (and likely greater) in very poor countries, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, and we know that less than 4% of the world's surgical treatment is provided in low-income regions. Most of that surgery in poor countries is performed in the bigger cities, where only 10% to 20% of the population lives.

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2012.455
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2012.455
ER  -