Event Details
This ground-breaking conference will bring together surgical and anaesthetic specialists, health policy makers, public health and health system experts to discuss and debate:
- Essential surgical care and anaesthesia as part of universal health coverage
- Expanding access to safe, high quality, affordable surgery and anaesthesia in South Africa, particularly in rural and under-served areas
- Appropriate workforce, training, and education
- Health system strengthening including infrastructure development
- Financing essential surgical and anaesthetic care
- Building linkages across disciplines
We will also host the South African Launch of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.
More information will be circulated over the next two weeks. In the meantime please diarise the date. For further information, contact Professor Martin Smith at martin.smith@wits.ac.za