Advocating for children's surgery within country health plans: lessons from Nigeria and the global stage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the growing emphasis on provision of quality safe and affordable surgical care in low- and middle-income countries, and the World Health Assembly resolution 68. 15 on strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anesthesia as components of universal health coverage, a review of published surgical plans of various countries, revealed a lack of emphasis on children's surgery. Due to the peculiarities of the human resource, infrastructure and equipment required for children's surgery, a lack of deliberate actions and policies targeted at strengthening surgical care for children implies that achieving universal health coverage for children may not be a reality in this setting.

Methods

A baseline assessment of children's surgical capacity was conduct

SUBMITTER: Seyi-Olajide JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10442532 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature