Improving Effective Surgical Delivery in Humanitarian Disasters: Lessons from Haiti
Open Access
- 26 April 2011
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 8 (4), e1001025
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001025
Abstract
Kathryn Chu and colleagues describe the experiences of Médecins sans Frontières after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and discuss how to improve delivery of surgery in humanitarian disasters.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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