Using participatory action research to empower district hospital staff to deliver quality-assured essential surgery to rural populations in Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania

• Main Authors: Chiara Pittalis (Author), Grace Drury (Author), Gerald Mwapasa (Author), Eric Borgstein (Author), Mweene Cheelo (Author), John Kachimba (Author), Adinan Juma (Author), Kondo Chilonga (Author), Niamh Cahill (Author), Ruairi Brugha (Author), Chris Lavy (Author), Jakub Gajewski (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundIn 2017 the SURG-Africa project set out to institute a surgical, obstetric, trauma and anesthesia (SOTA) care capacity-building intervention focused on non-specialist providers at district hospitals in Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. The aim was to scale up quality-assured SOTA care for rural...