Up to one-third of the global burden of disease involves surgical conditions; however, 5 in 7
people across the world do not have access to timely, affordable surgical care. Low-and
middle-income countries account for the majority of the inequities in access to timely surgical
care, where the availability of specialty surgical services such as neurosurgery is limited or
unavailable. Albania, situated in the Western Balkan region, was once one of the poorest
countries in Europe. It is now an upper-middle-income country, and an example of the …