Pakistan's National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plan: an adapted model for a devolved federal-provincial health system
Pakistan's National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plan: an adapted model for a devolved federal-provincial health system
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DOI:
10.1007/s12630-020-01708-2
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发表时间:
2020-05-14
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Nishtar, Sania
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作者:
Fatima, Irum;Shoman, Haitham;Nishtar, Sania
Access to safe surgical care has been acknowledged as a major global and public health concern in recent years. In 2010, 16.9 million people died from conditions requiring surgical care; this exceeded the mortality caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined during the same period. 1 It is estimated that 77 million disability-adjusted life years could be averted through access to basic surgical care. 2 In Pakistan, acute surgical illnesses result in 187 deaths per 100,000 of population compared with 164 deaths per 100,000 of population caused by infectious diseases. 3 In 2015, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) launched its report ‘‘Global Surgery 2030’’and proposed the National Surgical, Obstetric and Anesthesia Plan (NSOAP) approach as a guide to help committed countries frame their surgical care strategies. 2 In Pakistan, a coordinated, comprehensive, and tailored approach using this framework is required to meet the country’s need for optimizing surgical care delivery.The LCoGS framework builds upon six interdependent domains that provide a platform for NSOAP development: infrastructure, workforce, service delivery, financing, information management, and governance. 4 The LCoGS also proposed six indicators to measure the baseline and monitor the progress of surgical care in a given country. 2 They include: 1) two-hour access to timely essential surgery; 2) surgical, anesthesia, and obstetrics density per 100,000 of population; 3) surgical procedures volume per 100,000 of population; 4) perioperative mortality rates; 5) risk of impoverishing expenditure; and 6) risk of catastrophic expenditure. These indicators have been included in the World Bank Groups’ World Development Indicators repository, 5 thus placing the onus on member countries to focus on surgical care.