{
  "abstract": "As progress in combating infectious diseases has led to more children surviving and morbidity reducing, surgical conditions have accounted for a larger share of global ill health. 1 Yet, 5 billion people lack safe, affordable operative care2; approximately 50% of them are children.3 Without decisive action, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for children’s health will remain out of reach.4 Preventable deaths and life-long disability in childhood can also push families into poverty and sap national productivity.5 Absent, unaffordable, or poor-quality surgical care for children is therefore both a moral and an economic crisis.6 7",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Global Surgery Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Soham Bandyopadhyay"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania"
      ],
      "name": "Godfrey Sama Philipo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh"
      ],
      "name": "Tahmina Banu"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania"
      ],
      "name": "Zaitun Bokhary"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Global Surgery Group, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Kokila Lakhoo"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS): a decade in review",
  "uid": "d4ccc494-c9db-53bc-83ce-976d47389411"
}