There is a critical shortage of personnel and equipment for safe obstetric anesthesia in East Africa, highlighting the need for increased funding and training to meet global surgery targets.
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Signals urgent obstetric anesthesia capacity gaps in East Africa; leaves open scalable solutions pending prospective studies.
We identified significant shortages of both the personnel and equipment needed to provide safe anesthetic care for obstetric surgical cases across East Africa. There is a need to increase the number of physician anesthetists, to improve the training of nonphysician anesthesia providers, and to develop management protocols for obstetric patients requiring anesthesia. This will strengthen health systems and improve surgical outcomes in developing countries. More funding is required for training physician anesthetists if developing countries are to reach the targeted specialist workforce density of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery of 20 surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric physicians per 100,000 population by 2030.
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