Surgery

Image of a capnograph surgical monitoring device, a small whie box with a screen displaying vital statistics.

Anesthesia Without Capnography: ‘Like Flying Blind’

A brick building in Nyarugusu refugee camp’s main health post labeled Op Theatre

Socialized for Scarcity: Surgical Care in Tanzania’s Remote Refugee Camps

Belinda Karimi, wearing a surgical mask and a hot pink head covering, performs surgery with a colleague.

Theatre Nurses: The Unsung Heroes in Surgical Safety

Yanomami Indigenous people rest in traditional blue and white hammocks used in lieu of hospital beds.

Bridging the Surgical Gap for Rural Indigenous Communities

An obstetric team performs a caesarean section delivery at the RSIA Tambak maternity clinic in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 10, 2020.

We Cannot Tackle Maternal Mortality Without Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Care

Closeup of a surgeon in green scrubs and her assistants operating on a patient. Universal Images Group Getty

Representing Global Surgery and Sometimes, All of Africa

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

Surgeons operate in a hospital in Sotouboua, Togo. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

To Prepare for Pandemics, Invest in Surgical Care

A Syrian doctor checks on a child after a surgery at a hospital in Syria's Idlib province, September 10, 2018. Image: Aaref WATAD/AFP/Getty

Saving the Future Through the Art of the Knife

A nurse pours water from a pitcher to help the surgeon scrub for a cesarean section at St. Therese Hospital in Central Plateau, Haiti. © 2014 C. Hanna-Truscott/Midwives for Haiti, Courtesy of Photoshare

Safe Surgery—and UHC—Hinge on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

In the operating theater at Sotouboua hospital in Togo, Africa. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty

Cutting Through the Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage

On March 19th, 2019 the first operating room for surgical management of Tuberculosis was inaugurated at Hipolito Unanue Hospital (Lima, Peru).

How Surgery Could Help End Tuberculosis