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Pakistan faces a severe shortage of pediatric surgical care, with only 0.4 pediatric surgeons per million population, necessitating the integration of children's surgery into national health planning.
Highlights the critical shortage of pediatric surgical and anesthesia care in Pakistan, where 35% of the population is under 15 years old.
Two billion children worldwide lack access to safe surgical and anesthesia care when needed.1 The global pediatric surgical workforce is limited, and children and adolescents with surgical conditions often get absorbed into adult surgical services as pediatric surgeons are absent or overwhelmed. With an estimated population of 68.5 million children younger than 15 years (35% of the total population), Pakistan also faces similar challenges in delivering adequate surgical care to children. Despite investments in maternal and child health in recent years, Pakistan was unable to attain the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. The death rate from congenital anomalies before the age of 5 …
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Siddiqui et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Pediatric surgical conditions. Pakistan faces a severe shortage of pediatric surgical care, with only 0.4 pediatric surgeons per million population, necessitating the integration of children's surgery into national health planning.
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