ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2021
National surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia and nursing plan, Nigeria.
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- Implementation of Nigeria's national surgical plan: building basic life support capacity to strengthen safe surgical care.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm.BMJ global health · 2024Review
- Expansion of national surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia plans in Latin America: can Brazil be next?Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Review
- Non-technical skills training for Nigerian interprofessional surgical teams: a cross-sectional survey.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- The landscape of perioperative nursing education in Africa: a scoping review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Cost-effectiveness of a pediatric operating room installation in Sub-Saharan Africa.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Strengthening surgical healthcare research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa: impact of a research training programme in Nigeria.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- The Pan-African Surgical Healthcare Forum: An African qualitative consensus propagating continental national surgical healthcare policies and plans.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- National Surgical Healthcare Policy Development and Implementation: Where do We Stand in Africa?World journal of surgery · 2023Article
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Recent evidence suggests that strengthening surgical care within existing health systems will strengthen the overall health-care system. However, Nigeria's national strategic health development plan 2018-2022 placed little emphasis on surgical care. To address the gap, we worked with professional societies and other partners to develop the national surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia and nursing plan 2019-2023. The aim was to foster actions to prioritize surgical care for the achievement of universal health coverage. In addition to creating a costed strategy to strengthen surgical care, the plan included children's surgery and nursing: two key aspects that have been neglected in other national surgical plans. Pilot implementation of the plan began in 2020, supported by a nongovernmental organization with experience in surgical care in the region. We have created specific entry points to facilitate the pilot implementation. In the pilot, an electronic surgery registry has been created; personnel are being trained in life support; nurses are being trained in safe perioperative care; biomedical technicians and sterile supplies nurses are being trained in surgical instrument repair and maintenance; and research capacity is being strengthened. In addition, the mainstream media are being mobilized to improve awareness about the plan among policy-makers and the general population. Another development partner is interested in providing support for paediatric surgery, and a children's hospital is being planned. As funding is a key challenge to full implementation, we need innovative domestic funding strategies to support and sustain implementation.
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