ID-5184 Wonca Abstracts supplement L-Z 13-10-23 - Flipbook - Page 28
WONCA 2023 Supplement 2: WONCA 2023 abstracts (L–Z)
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Revival of GP’s medical aid and exchanges in remote
foreign areas: a SWOT analysis to know its impact
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Dr Jean-Claude Leners
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Medicus Liber
Since the COVID-19 pandemic a lot of valuing doctor’s exchanges or temporarily medical missions
in remote areas have been stopped. For instance in our country, some 87 non-governmental
organisations (NGO) are established and some 52 has a primary medical program. We wanted to
find out how far this exchange, as it will be reactivated nowadays, is still a good medical collaboration
between remote populations without access to local GPs and the temporarily expatriated GPs. A
standardised methodology has to be applied in order to find out positive and negative aspects that
might be targeted or questioned. SWOT analysis is one of the tools that may combat our too-narrow
vision and be more objective about our processes. The acronym stands for: strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. (A) Strengths in this field means: to bring the medical expertise where
local GPs are missing; to get knowledge on diseases which you never saw in your own country. (B)
Weaknesses: by sending regularly expatriated physicians, you will not allow local organisations to fill
in the gap through local workforces; local authorities might get too much dependant on foreign GPs
and local doctors might choose to leave their native areas. (C) Opportunities: by a real exchange and
training in two ways, both sides may have a win–win situation; by the fact that both sides are looking
on different cultures or medical approaches in similar diseases, there will be a better understanding
in both surroundings. (D) Threats: it is always easy to start a kind of medical humanitarian aid, but it is
much more difficult to let local GPs take over this whole task; keeping authorities dependant on GP
and money transfer is not what most countries need or want. Mutual respect, understanding and trust
are a minimum for a good collaboration.
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