WHO - Public Health initiatives

You will be pleased to learn that WHO is addressing 'lack of access to
emergency and essential surgical care at primary health care faciltiies',
through training workshops with Ministry of Health in countries (9). We
developed an e-Learning tool kit on Integrated Management on Emergency and
Essential Surgical Care (IMEESC), based on the WHO manual 'Surgical Care at
the District Hospital' (website).

This tool targets policy-makers and health-care providers to improve life
saving emergency and essential surgical skills for injuries (road accidents,
falls, burns, domestic violence,disasters, pregnancy related complications)
and infections (HIV). The overall aim is to reduce death and disability
particularly at first referral level health facilities, which often lack
specialists.

Best wishes
Dr Meena Nathan Cherian
Project: Emergency & Essential Surgical Care
Clinical Procedures Unit (CPR)
Department of Essential Health Technologies
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
tel:0041 22 791 4011; fax: 0041 22 791 4836
www.who.int/surgery