Objective: This study aimed to describe the pattern and outcome of paediatric surgical cases
operated upon in a newly established paediatric surgical unit in Nigeria. Subjects and …

BACKGROUND: Pediatric surgery is a well-established specialty in many developed
countries, but little is known about the status of the specialty in most developing countries …

Background: Data on paediatric surgical conditions in sub‐Saharan countries, including
Ghana, are scanty and sketchy. Using hospital‐based data, it is possible to assess the …

Paediatric surgery as a specialty is a response to the realization over 70 years ago that the
needs of the child anatomically, physiological and emotionally are different than the adult …

BackgroundInfectious diseases have always been the lime light of global health with very
little focus on childhood surgical conditions despite the fact that children constitute about half …

Background The role of surgery in global health has gained greater attention in recent years.
Approximately 1.8 billion children below 15 years live in low‐and middle‐income countries …

This report is based on a 6-year experience with surgery in children in a rural hospital in
Northern Nigeria. Paediatric surgery represents 6.6% of all paediatric work-load and 9.6% of …

Dear Sir, It was interesting to read the timely article by Bickler et al.[1] on pediatric surgery in
sub-Saharan Africa. Their effort in trying to bring to the fore the problems of pediatric surgery …

Background: Data on utilization of paediatric surgical services and the burden of paediatric
surgical diseases in the West African subregion is scarce. Methodology: This retrospective …

Introduction/purpose The burden of pediatric surgical disease is largely unknown in low-and
middle-income countries such as Uganda where access to care is limited. Methods …