Chartering Patient Flights for Surgery in a Road Inaccessible Nation: The Samaritan’s Purse Cleft Lip Missions Model in South Sudan
Flight chartered mission trips in South Sudan have significantly decreased the backlog of patients with cleft lip in that country and are very cost-effective according to WHO standards. Investigating this model's utility for other surgical missions while continuing to build local surgical capacity is warranted.
Authors
- Isaiah J. Rhodes
- Jinggang J. Ng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1180-7526)
- Justin Rubena Lumaya
- Christine H. Rohde (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9005-7753)
- William R. Rhodes
Institutions
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital (US)
- University of Juba (SS)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
- Published
- 2024-11-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/scs.0000000000010888
- Primary Topic
- Global Health and Surgery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00