Department of Surgery, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan.
BMC Pediatr. 2019 May 16;19(1):152. doi: 10.1186/s12887-019-1512-9.
As the pediatric population requiring health services rises globally, developing countries are struggling to cater to the growing burden of non-communicable diseases - particularly those requiring specialized surgical care.
Despite the literature supporting specialized pediatric surgical care, the developing world is far from meeting the American Pediatric Surgical Association (APSA) Manpower taskforce recommendation of at least 1 qualified pediatric surgeon per 100,000 patients (0-15 years-old). In Pakistan, there is an unmet surgical need in the pediatric population due to a multitude of short shortcomings, notably in quality and quantity of the training programs on offer, and urgent short- and long-term steps are needed to improve this dire situation.
It is crucial for the global surgical community to take steps, especially with regards to pediatric surgical training, to ensure delivery of accessible and quality surgical care to the world's children.
随着全球需要医疗服务的儿科人群增加，发展中国家正在努力应对不断增长的非传染性疾病负担，特别是那些需要专业外科护理的疾病。
尽管有文献支持专门的儿科外科护理，但发展中国家远未达到美国小儿外科学会（APSA）人力工作组的建议，即每 10 万名患者（0-15 岁）至少有 1 名合格的儿科外科医生。在巴基斯坦，由于培训计划的质量和数量存在诸多短期缺陷，儿科人群存在未满足的手术需求，需要采取紧急的短期和长期措施来改善这种严峻局面。
全球外科界必须采取措施，特别是在儿科外科培训方面，以确保向全世界的儿童提供可及和高质量的外科护理。
