Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tropenchirurgie e.V.

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German Society for Tropical Surgery - Welcome!

About the DTC

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The German Society for Tropical Surgery aims to provide access to surgical care in acceptable quality for all levels of the population in countries with highly limited medical resources, namely in so-called third world countries. Therefor we promote following concepts and activities:
  • Establishing training programs for District Surgery with professional practice locally
  • Specialist training in Germany
  • Annual workshops and conferences for Tropical Surgery
  • Development of adapted surgical technologies
  • Cooperation with national and international organisations
  • Promotion of north-south-partnerships among colleagues and hospitals
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Global Initiative for Essential and Emergency Surgical Care (GIEESC)

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Essential Surgical Care

The GIEESC has been created by a department within the WHO, called Department for Essential and Emergency Health Care (EEHC). This department was initiated by two people: Luc Noel and Dr. Meena Cherian, who can be called the “mother” of all basic surgical topics within the WHO. It is Dr. Cherian, Indian Professor for Anaesthesia, who has managed to focus the WHO’s understanding on the fact, that it is the missing or insufficient surgery, which is responsible for an important gap in the quality of health care in poor countries including all gynaecological and obstetric indications like emergency caesareans.

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Obituary for Dr. Pascience Kibatala – Tanzania

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As president of the IFRS I want to express my very deep grief at the death of

Dr. Pascience Kibatala from Tanzania.


Dr. Pascience Kibatala

Organizing the International Symposium of DTC 2003 in Hamburg I met him first 2001 in Addis Abbeba at the ASEA annual meeting. As a rural surgeon in Ifakara he was very well aware of the enormous problems offering surgical care to the people in rural areas. He was dedicated to improve the circumstances of rural medical education and Ifakara was wellknown as an outstanding teaching hospital. 

From this time we met regularly, discussing how to improve health care for the poor and how to give an incentive to the native surgeons not to leave the country.

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