Haile T. Debas
1*1 Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Abstract
Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidence-based
national strategies are being developed for scaling-up surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa. Key to achieving
this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an
accurate estimate of existing need, developing methods, rigorously planning and implementing the plan, and
scaling-up essential surgical services at the national level.