An open process to promote surgery as a public health measure Welcome to the November 2015 newsletter of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Dear Friends and Colleagues, These are truly exciting times for Global Surgery. As we wrap up 2015, year, we are pleased to inform you of progress that we have made in Madagascar, […]
Professor Kobus van Zyl died peacefully at his Bellville home on 10 May 2015. Nephew of the first two Professors of Surgery at Stellenbosch University, he became the third in 1980. All who knew him will acknowledge, however, that this was not an appointment via family entitlement; his academic status was richly deserved and […]
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Charl Dreyer died suddenly in Cape Town on the evening of 13th August 2015 while watching his favourite sport, tennis, on television. His untimely death has been a great loss to the surgical community of Cape Town. His journey in medicine started in 1974 when, after matriculating, he enrolled at the medical faculty at […]
