Why Do They Leave? Challenges to Retention of Surgical Clinical Officers in District Hospitals in Malawi

• Main Authors: Jakub Gajewski (Author), Marisa Wallace (Author), Chiara Pittalis (Author), Gerald Mwapasa (Author), Eric Borgstein (Author), Leon Bijlmakers (Author), Ruairi Brugha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundLow- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are the worst affected by a lack of safe and affordable access to safe surgery. The significant unmet surgical need can be in part attributed to surgical workforce shortages that disproportionately affect rural areas of these countries. To combat th...