"Surgery is an indivisible, indispensable part of health care."

— Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank.

 

 

To help define the landscape of global surgery, please look at the following resources:​

• The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS)

• Disease Control Priorities (DCP3)

• World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution 68.15—‘‘Strengthening emergency and essential surgical care and anaesthesia as a component of universal health coverage’’