Improving Effective Surgical Delivery in Humanitarian Disasters: Lessons from Haiti
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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.
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