25,000 surgeons working to improve care for patients worldwide – Expert
A Professor of Colorectal surgery at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Dion Morton, says 25,000 surgeons across the world are working together to improve care for patients worldwide.
Morton stated this on the sidelines of his lecture at the 18th Annual Scientific Conference and Gathering, with the theme “Impact of Collaborative Research: The Reach, The Research, and the Riches,” in Lagos on Friday.
He said that the event was centred on collaboration and that he was proud to be part of a huge collaboration of surgeons across the world.
“It is the biggest research collaboration in the world today. It comprises perhaps 25,000 surgeons, and they are working together to improve care for their patients.
“Their work is important and pertinent because it represents patients in South America, Central America, Africa, and India.
“And because we can demonstrate the benefits and improvements in care across the world, they are relevant to all patients,” he said.
Morton, who was the guest speaker at the occasion, said there was a huge need for growing surgery, adding, “To grow surgery across the world and to provide care for patients, we need to provide research and evidence to support it.”
According to him, in sub-Saharan Africa at the moment, there are not enough surgeons, thus preventing many patients from accessing safe surgery.
Speaking at the occasion, Prof. Adesoji Ademuyiwa, of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, said that clinical scientists could transform from research to practise.
Ademuyiwa said that the theme for the conference was ”The Impacts of Collaboration on Clinical Research: Local Experiences in Genomics Research.”
He said that there was lots of information and evidence available for clinical scientists to work on, stressing that many lecturers from his university’s Faculty of Clinical Sciences were involved in research.
“When the results of the research are out, they have to be translated into practise, and the government is expected to fashion them into a policy,” he said.
Ademuyiwa, who was also a director of the National Institute of Health Research Funded Center on Global Surgery, said that clinical scientists were discussing how to collaborate to generate high-quality evidence that would eventually be put into practise.
Also, the Deputy Provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Prof. Osaretin Ebuehi, stressed the need for clinicians and business scientists to collaborate in the area of research.
Ebuehi said that this had become necessary in order to do high-impact research that would contribute to national development and have global recognition.
