Emergency and essential surgical care

Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC)

The Clinical Procedures Unit is responsible for ensuring efficacy, safety and equity in the provision of clinical procedures in surgery, anaesthesia, obstetrics and orthopaedics, particularly at rural hospitals, district hospitals, primary health care facilities, health centres level.

The GIEESC was established to improve collaboration among organisations and institutions involved in reducing death and disability from road traffic accidents, burns, falls, pregnancy related complications, domestic violence, disasters and other emergency surgical conditions. Read more...

The Integrated Management for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care toolkit This tool targets policy-makers and health-care providers. It provides guidance on WHO recommendations for minimum standards on emergency and essential surgical care in surgery, trauma, obstetrics and anaesthesia at first-referral level health-care facilities. It contains the SCDH manual, training videos as well as best practice protocols. Read more...

LATEST NEWS September 2007 The Lancet article: Surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries September 2007 GIEESC meeting organised by WHO/HQ/AFRO/Tanzania 24-25 Sept, Dar-es-Salaam February 2007 GIEESC facilitators meeting conducted in Oman. January 2007 GIEESC facilitators meeting conducted in Tanzania

EMERGENCY AND ESSENTIAL SURGERY AS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WHO/PHOTOLIBRARY 24 - 25 September 2007 The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to take essential emergency, basic surgery and anaesthesia skills to health care staff in low and middle income countries around the globe. The initiative is the main subject of discussion during a global meeting of the Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, on 24 and 25 September, in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. :: Background facts :: Examples of surgery as primary health care :: Note for the media WHO/30 — 25 September 2007 Basic surgery training to save lives and prevent disability