A neglected priority? The importance of surgery in tackling global health inequalities
"I was thinking that I was already dead... now I can talk with you people, I'm so happy! " These words, spoken quietly but with great warmth by a young woman devastated by a vesicovaginal fistula and restored to dignity through compassionate operative treatment, cut cleanly through di...
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