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Barriers to surgery performed by non-physician clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa-a scoping review.

Phylisha van HeemskerkenHenk BroekhuizenJakub GajewskiRuairí BrughaLeon Bijlmakers
Published in: Human resources for health (2020)
A multitude of factors hampers the provision of surgery by NPCs across SSA. The two main issues are surgical pre-requisites and the need for regulatory and professional frameworks to legitimate and control the surgical practice of NPCs.
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