[1] The rural general hospital model aims to overcome some of the practical difficulties associated with delivering services to the people living in these areas.
Certain specialist procedures can be performed at rural general hospitals by visiting surgeons.
Rural general hospitals are equipped and staffed to be able to resuscitate, stabilise and prepare patients who might require emergency surgery.
[4] Rural general hospitals that are located on islands are also equipped and staffed to be able to carry out caesarean sections.
[11] There are some other hospitals that face similar challenges, but that have employed different models to deliver care to rural communities: