“Surgery is required to save lives, cure cancers and improve the quality of one’s life. Yet if you have surgery in Africa, these benefits come at a cost. Patients are twice as likely to die following surgery than if they had surgery elsewhere. Sadly, a mother in Africa is 50 times more likely to die following a caesarean delivery than in the United States, and children are 11 times more likely to die following surgery compared to children in high-income countries. Nearly a billion people in Africa either do not get surgery when it is needed, receive surgery too late, or are at increased risk of death following surgery.”  

Bruce Biccard, Safer Surgery for Africa

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Safe Surgery SA has been providing research support to investigators since its inception. To view our research support offering, click here. 

We also administer the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG) and have developed the APON platform for collaborators, including SAPORG members, to engage. Research publications in high impact scientific scientific journals have established the APORG as an important contributor to the evidence on the safety and quality of peri-operative care in African LMICs.

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