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Provision of surgical care in Ethiopia: Challenges and solutions

Caitrin M. KellyEmory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Nichole StarrDepartment of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Nakul P. RaykarProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Rachel R. YorletsDepartment of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Charles LiuProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA
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Miliard DerbewBlack Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Pages 1691-1701 | Received 20 Jan 2017, Accepted 04 Jan 2018, Published online: 15 Feb 2018

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