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Suturing a divided world: How providing access to surgery drives global prosperity

  • Written by David Ljungman, Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow, Harvard Medical School
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Earlier this year, three days after giving birth to her fourth child by cesarean section, Salome Karwah had sudden convulsions. When she was admitted to a hospital in Liberia, the staff panicked, as she was a famous Ebola survivor. Karwah, a nurse assistant, died the next day, likely from a easily treatable complication...

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