Assessment of pediatric surgical needs, health-seeking behaviors, and health systems in a rural district of Pakistan

Surgical conditions are responsible for up to 15% of total Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) lost globally. Approximately 4.8 billion people have no access to surgical care and this studies aim is to assess the surgical disease burden in children under the age of five years. We used Surgeons Ove...

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Main Authors: Saqib Hamid Qazi, Syed Saqlain Ali Meerza, Reinou S. Groen, Sohail Asghar Dogar, Mushtaq Mirani, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Zahid Ali Khan, Zahra Ali Padhani, Rasool Bux, Imran Ahmed Chahudary, Arjumand Rizvi, Saleem Islam, Sadaf Khan, Rizwan Haroon Ur Rashid, Syed Akbar Abbas, Abdul Sami Memon, Sadia Tabassum, Bakhtawar Dilawar, Jai K. Das
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLOS Global Public Health
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10021200/?tool=EBI