Surgery as a component of universal healthcare: Where is South Africa?

S Afr Med J

Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA; Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., USA.

Published: August 2019

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