The sustainable development goals and surgery: Is a ’moon shot’ the answer?, by John Meara & Nakul Raykar - LA Times
▻http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-surgery-oped-story.html
Recently in American healthcare politics we have used the metaphor of the “moon shot” for curing disease; a metaphor that, by the way, was actually accomplished in 1969. The majority of the world’s poor do not need a “moon shot.” They need functional infrastructure, a trained workforce, supplies that arrive on time and processes necessary to assure a mother is saved from postpartum hemorrhage, a child from a perforated appendix, or her father from a fractured femur.