中国体育彩票

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Clinical Services and Social Impact

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Social Impact?

Our work improves the health and economic productivity of persons with surgical conditions

• Rural and urban communities have better knowledge of surgical conditions
• Our stakeholder trainings improve access to surgical care
• We are creating a pipeline of global surgery researchers in Africa
•  Policymakers are adopting mechanisms to strengthen surgical systems
  

Implementation Workshop, June 2 -6, 2025? 

The study aimed to evaluate how effectively Mentor Mothers—a dedicated group of community health workers (CHWs)—conducted home screenings and clinical referrals for diabetes and diabetic foot infections in this rural region of the Eastern Cape. This work brought us one step closer to understanding how to deliver effective chronic disease interventions in low-resource settings.

The Equi-injury project convened a Multistakeholder Consensus Workshop with the aim  to create a space for representatives from various stakeholder groups, including community members, injured patients, healthcare providers, and policymakers, to discuss and jointly agree on priority barriers to injury care which require intervention.

Indigenous Knowledge Healers and Diabetes Screening, 11-15 March 2024, Madwaleni, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

The Centre for Global Surgery team spent a week in Madwaleni in the rural Eastern Cape educating indigenous knowledge healers on diabetes and foot infection. The team held focus groups, two days of training, and a multi-stakeholder workshop. Healers were trained on the basics of diabetes and foot infection and taught to use screening tools for risk assessment?