Rennie Qin: A cross-sectional study of essential surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care capacity in Fiji
Rennie Qin, General Surgery SET Registrar at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, shared her recent article on LinkedIn:
“Congratulations to Sundar and Jope for publishing their paper on ‘a cross-sectional study of essential surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care capacity in the public sector in Fiji’ in PLOS Global Public Health this week.
It has been my honour and privilege to mentor and supervise them on this project along with Rajeev Patel over the last three years.
This work has been previously presented by Jope and Sundar at the Pacific Island Health Research Symposium and by Rajeev at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons conference, where he won the best research presentation in global health prize.
When I left Harvard global surgery a few years ago, we decided to give the data back to the country and support Fijian surgical registrars in leading this study. Locally led global health research is good science.
The data interpretation and policy recommendations we have drawn is much more nuanced, insightful, and contextualised than I could’ve ever anticipated if we had analysed this data from Harvard.
I am grateful to all our co-authors, Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete, Dr Jemesa Tudravu, Dr Josese Turagava, and Mr Kiki Maoate for making this happen. It is 2025, we have no excuses to do global health research without local first and senior authorship.
I have learnt a lot from my Pacific colleagues, for example, from the degree of community outreach and clinician input into policymaking in Fiji.
At the end of the day, we are clinicians who face the common struggle of not being able to provide the care our patients need across the Ocean, in a world where healthcare is increasingly seen as a liability rather than an intrinsic right.
Behind business metrics, it is really the relationships with our patients and colleagues that hold the health system together. I’m grateful for the relationship with my Pacific colleagues from an early stage in my career as we navigate how to provide the best care for our populations in a changing climate and share mutual lessons in doing so.”
A cross-sectional study of essential surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care capacity in the public sector in Fiji.
Authors: Ashneel Sundar, et al.
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