The burden of surgical disease in children from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) is becoming more recognized as significant and undertreated. We recently reviewed our health system's experience with providing quaternary-level surgical care to children from LMICs through a partnership with World Pediatric Project (WPP), a not-for-profit organization.
A retrospective review was performed of all WPP-sponsored patients who received surgical care at our children's hospital from LMICs in the Caribbean and Central America from July 2000 to August 2018.
Two hundred and fifty-five patients (average age: 5.9±5.3 years; range:
