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South Africa

Salome Maswime is a South African clinician and global health expert. She is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and the Head of Global Surgery at the University of Cape Town.

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More importantly though, the role of women in their societies can tell us a lot. Communities that protect their women seem to have better health outcomes.

It is a new discipline in medicine which focuses on access to surgery and improving quality of care and outcomes. I like to describe it as the interface between surgical services and surgical systems.

But I am very clear about what my expertise is. It is also a sense of pressure and responsibility because I often feel that if a wrong decision is made, I am not speaking just for me, but for many.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Salome Maswime (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.