Deaths from acute abdominal conditions and geographical access to surgical care in India: a nationally representative spatial analysis
A new publication from CGHR explores an emerging field of global health: surgery and surgical care in LMICs.
Few population-based studies quantify mortality from surgical conditions and relate mortality to access to surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries.
Improvements in human and physical resources at existing government hospitals are needed to reduce deaths from acute abdominal conditions in India. Full access to well-resourced hospitals within 50 km by all of India’s population could have avoided about 50 000 deaths from acute abdominal conditions, and probably more from other emergency surgical conditions.