G4 Alliance Conflicts & Disasters Working Group: Supporting Surgical Care in Humanitarian Settings

Conflict and disasters place enormous pressure on already stretched health systems, disrupting access to essential surgical, obstetric, trauma and anaesthesia care at precisely the time when these services are most urgently needed.

The G4 Alliance Conflicts & Disasters Working Group brings together members of the global surgery community with an interest in improving the coordination, delivery and sustainability of surgical care in conflict-affected and disaster settings. InterSurgeon is pleased to be actively involved in the Working Group and to support opportunities for our members to engage with this important area of global surgery.

Join the upcoming webinar

The Working Group’s latest project is a series of webinars provides an opportunity to hear from those working directly in this field, share experience and consider some of the practical challenges of delivering surgical care in humanitarian settings.

We particularly encourage InterSurgeon members working in surgery, anaesthesia, trauma, emergency care, nursing, rehabilitation and humanitarian health to join the discussion. The webinar will also be relevant to organisations involved in strengthening surgical systems or supporting healthcare teams in conflict- and disaster-affected regions.

The first webinar speaker is from the conflict torn nation of Sudan. Chair of the C&D Working Group and InterSurgeon member, Amy Leah Potter says:

“While international attention drifts from what has become one of the world’s most catastrophic humanitarian crises, Sudan’s health emergency remains urgent – and it is not defined solely by destruction.

Beneath the silence of a forgotten conflict, local clinicians and frontline teams are doing far more than managing acute trauma. They are actively innovating, adapting, and laying the groundwork to build resilient surgical and operative care systems designed to endure beyond the front lines.

Their resolve is extraordinary, but long-term health system resilience cannot be built in isolation.

Join us for an upcoming webinar to hear directly about these on-the-ground efforts, the realities facing healthcare workers across Sudan, and how the global health community can mobilise to support sustainable operative care where it is needed most.”

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One of InterSurgeon’s key aims is to connect people with relevant expertise to those who need it. The Conflicts & Disasters Working Group provides another way for our community to share knowledge, learn from colleagues working in very different settings and build connections across organisations and countries.

We hope you will join us for the webinar and be part of the conversation.

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