title: How to bring surgery to remote tribal areas.
abstract: In a mission hospital located in a tribal area in India we found that surgical patients were not coming to the hospital due to a variety of reasons. Table 1 summarizes the main problems and how they were overcome. The effectiveness of our efforts was reflected in the increase in the number of operations after these measures were carried out (1022 before and 1865 after).
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Christian Medical College, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gnanaraj
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gnanaraj
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Shah
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008493:Medical Missions; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D014195:Travel