Global Paediatric Surgery Network

05/22/2015

Great news! The World Health Assembly Resolution on including strengthening emergency and essential surgical and anesthesia care as a component of universal health coverage was unanimously approved in Geneva!

Congratulations to all those who worked on the resolution on essential surgery & anaesthesia, which was unanimously approved today. Recognition from the global community of the critical importance of health systems.

04/28/2015

The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery released its report today, with a vision to assure universal access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care when needed. Stunningly, 5 billion of the world's 7 billion people cannot access safe surgery when needed. http://www.globalsurgery.info

Welcome to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery website! Meet the commissioners Reach our new Commission webpage hosted by the Lancet by clicking this banner. The Lancet has commissioned a group of experts in a variety of disciplines pertaining to Global Surgery to generate a collaborative effort…

04/28/2015

Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition (DCP3) Releases the First Volume: Essential Surgery:

"Improving access to surgical care could save 1.5 million lives per year in poor countries, according to findings released today by the Disease Control Priorities Network at University of Washington’s Department of Global Health." Says volume editor and University of California San Francisco Professor Haile Debas, “Essential Surgery, the first volume of the Disease Control Priorities, 3rd Edition (DCP3) series, identifies 44 essential surgical procedures which should be available in low- and middle-income countries. Most of these procedures can be performed in first-level hospitals by multidisciplinary teams of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and other healthcare providers. Investment in first-level hospitals is critical because they are the most important sites for essential surgical care delivery.”

DCP3 is available at the following link:
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21568

04/27/2015

The Global Paediatric Surgery Network has updated its website! Check it out at http://gpsn.world/ or http://www.globalpaediatricsurgery.org/. Pick up our brochure at the APSA meeting this coming week.

12/06/2010

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