Laparoscopy in Rwanda: A National Assessment of Utilization, Demands, and Perceived Challenges.

Background: Laparoscopy has proven to be feasible and effective at reducing surgical morbidity and mortality in low resource settings. In Rwanda, the demand for and perceived challenges to laparoscopy use remain unclear.

Methods: A mixed-methods study was performed at the four Rwandan national referral teaching hospitals.

Collaboration in surgical capacity development: a report of the inaugural meeting of the Strengthening Rwanda Surgery initiative.

Background: Increasing access to surgical care is among the prioritized healthcare initiatives in Rwanda and other low income countries, where only 3.5 % of surgical procedures worldwide are being performed. Partnerships among surgeons at academic medical centers, non-governmental organizations, and representatives of industry for building sustainable local surgical capacity in developing settings should be explored.

[Penetrating wounds of the neck. Apropos of 4 cases].

Penetrating neck wounds are those which imply involvement of the platysma. For a long time the prerogative of wartime surgery they are now tending to become more frequent in civil practice. As with penetrating abdominal wounds they are serious and provoke varied lesions.