<link  type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet"  href="http://www.ffsse.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-share-button/themes/theme1/style.css" ><link  type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet"  href="http://www.ffsse.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-share-button/themes/theme1/style.css" >{"id":19,"date":"2013-11-28T03:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foundationforspecialsurgery.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2015-12-02T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T09:42:58","slug":"aboutfss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/aboutfss\/","title":{"rendered":"About FFSSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">WHY\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Africa has the highest ratio of surgical disability in the world but the lowest capacity to provide surgical care. This capacity is even worse when sub-specialty surgery is needed.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">MISSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Foundation for Special Surgery Europe and its <a href=\"http:\/\/foundationforspecialsurgery.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">sister foundation in the US<\/a> is to provide the highest level of sub-specialized surgical care to patients in  Africa and other underserved regions.  The Foundation is committed to being the leader in training the next generation of sub-specialized local surgeons in the region by enlisting the participation of surgeons across various specialties to provide premium care, skills transfer and education to benefit patients and the long-term sustainability of the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">VISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our vision is to aid in eradicating the burden of surgical diseases in Africa and other underserved regions through compassionate patient care, research and sharing of sub-specialized expertise.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit;\">CORE VALUES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Excellence<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Integrity<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Commitment<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Respect<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Cultural competence<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Environmental consciousness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY\u00a0 Africa has the highest ratio of surgical disability in the world but the lowest capacity to provide surgical care. This capacity is even worse when sub-specialty surgery is needed. MISSION The mission of the Foundation for Special Surgery Europe and its sister foundation in the US is to provide the highest level of sub-specialized&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ffsse.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}