Key result
The Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) was founded in 2016 to assemble a multidisciplinary team to improve surgical care for children in low-resource settings.
Why the study?
More than two thirds of the global population lack access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care, an inequity that disproportionately affects children in LMIC.
The Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) serves as a model for global collaboration to improve surgical care for children in low-resource settings.
May inform global efforts to improve pediatric surgical access in low-resource settings; leaves open rigorous outcome assessment.
More than two thirds of the global population lack access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care. This inequity disproportionately affects children in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). In 2016, a group of pediatric surgical care providers founded the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS). Their goal was to assemble a multidisciplinary team of specialists and advocates to improve surgical care for children, with a particular emphasis on those in low-resource settings. This review details the history of GICS, the process of its inception, the values guiding its work, its past achievements, and its current initiatives. The experience of GICS may serve as an effective model for global collaboration on other areas of public and global health.
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Greenberg et al. (2022) conducted a review in Lack of access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care for children. Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) was evaluated. The Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) was founded in 2016 to assemble a multidisciplinary team to improve surgical care for children in low-resource settings.
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