KevinMD May 1, 2019
In many countries around the world, women giving birth still face substantial risks to their own lives and that of their baby. Women travel for days to reach facilities that are understaffed, unsafe, and unequipped to provide life-saving surgical care. They are pushed into financial catastrophe as a result of paying for surgical care, if they are able to afford it all, and they return home with little support in the way of post-operative care.
Today, 70 percent of the world lacks access to safe, affordable, timely surgery. A third of global disease burden is amenable to surgical care, ranging from cancers and injuries, to obstructed labor and congenital anomalies such as cleft lip. Substantial progress has been made over...
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