{
  "abstract": "Sudan’s ongoing civil war has devastated its healthcare infrastructure, displacing professionals, destroying facilities and cutting off entire populations from surgical services. Operating theatres have been rendered inaccessible or destroyed, and access to essential surgical care is now beyond reach for many. In this extreme context, telemedicine has rapidly evolved from a support tool into a vital strategy for surgical continuity, but this is not telemedicine in the traditional sense. It is not powered by sophisticated platforms or high-speed internet. Instead, it relies on mobile voice calls, image sharing and messaging apps—basic tools being used with extraordinary ingenuity to sustain surgical services in a war zone. In this setting, surgical telemedicine refers to the use of these mobile-based tools to provide remote triage, intraoperative guidance, postoperative care and mentorship when in-person surgical access is impossible.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "General Surgery, Sudan Medical Specialization Board, Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan"
      ],
      "name": "Alsadig Suliman"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Mobile phone-based surgical telemedicine in Sudan: a conflict-driven innovation with global relevance",
  "uid": "6f04d8da-747b-5f32-ac3a-f9d5af284138"
}