Fauzia Anis Khan.
Global safety in anaesthesia and surgery: Implications for anaesthesia in Pakistan..
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;70(11):2031-5.

The Lancet Commission report in 2015 highlighted the role of safe surgery and anaesthesia. They also gave a framework of recommendations, indicators and targets to achieve universal access to safe surgery. This article explores the applicability of these indicators in Pakistan namely; access to timely surgery, specialist surgical workforce diversity, surgical volumes, perioperative mortality rate, protection against impoverishing expenditure and protection against catastrophic expenditure.

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