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East and Central African Journal of Surgery
Association of Surgeons of East Africa and College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa
ISSN: 1024-297X EISSN: 1024-297X
Vol. 21, No. 1, 2016, pp. 3-10
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Bioline Code: js16001
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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East and Central African Journal of Surgery, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2016, pp. 3-10
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Critical Care in Africa: A Surgical Intensivist Perspective
Macleod, Jana B.A.
Abstract
Critical care services often fall far outside the focus of mainstream health care
agendas. The disease specific list held by many health care stakeholders, including
the funding agencies, results in a funneling of political attention and funds
predominantly in those directions. Infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis
and HIV/AIDS, are on the fore front of the global public health agendas and
rightfully, will remain high on the list for the foreseeable future1. Childhood
infectious diseases also represent disease-specific agendas that are a main target of
donor funding because of the potential for intervening successfully and the
potential of life saved 2,3. The lure of eradication of a disease with a heavy burden on
the health of the population as exampled by the Polio campaigns and programs to
eradicate guinea worm easily capture the attention of governments and society
alike. As a result, crucial life-saving hospital services such as critical care are often
overlooked.
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