Surgical care is now recognized as a fundamental component of universal health coverage.
Unfortunately, most of the world is still without access to safe and timely surgical care …

Five billion people do not have access to safe, quality, timely, and affordable surgical care.
The field of global surgery has made great progress to increase awareness surrounding …

General surgery training requires several requisite factors to be successful, the most
important of which includes exposure to adequate case variety, complexity, and volume. The …

In response to increasing evidence that surgical conditions are an important global public
health problem, and data suggesting that essential surgical services can be delivered in a …

Global surgery as an essential component of global health. Global surgery is the study and
practice of improving access to timely, quality, and affordable surgical care. It emphasizes …

Over the past two decades, global surgery has evolved into a well-recognized surgical
discipline. This has come about for several reasons beyond the moral imperative. With the …

Guaranteeing access and quality of care for common surgical problems in Low-and middle-
income countries (LMICs) are the main concerns raised by the Lancet Commission on …

Surgically correctable pathology accounts for a sizeable proportion of the overall global
burden of disease. Over the last decade the role of surgery in the public health agenda has …

People who have been working to assure surgical care to everyone in the world (including
that majority of the world's people who live in poverty in low-and middleincome countries …

To paraphrase Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, global surgical care has taken a road
less traveled, and it has indeed made a difference. Yet, traveling this road has not …