Global Surgery
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In brief
In brief
Overview of global surgery initiatives presented at the 2019 BAPS meeting, focusing on surgical care access for children in low-middle income countries. Highlights the 2.5 billion children lacking surgical access, financial barriers to care, and advocacy efforts by organizations like GICS to address pediatric surgical needs in resource-limited settings.
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This article outlines the global surgery activities held at the 66th Annual International Meeting of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) in 2019. For the first time BAPS introduced a plenary session on global surgery. Topics that were covered include management of birth defects in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC), mostly gastroschisis, and community-based involvement in children's surgery, knowing that 2.5 billion children worldwide do not have access to surgical care. The presentation on financial burden for families with children needing surgical care highlighted the route to poverty in the absence of governmental support. The Hugh Greenwood lecture covered the involvement of a global organisation, namely Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) advocating and working towards children's surgery, as this was ignored at the Lancet Commission held in 2015.
Level of evidence
Level V.