progress in global surgery; comment on “global surgery – informing national strategies for scaling up surgery in sub-saharan africa”

Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidencebased national strategies are being developed for scalingup surgical services in sub-saharan africa. key to achieving this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an accurate estimate of existing need, developing methods, rigorously planning and implementing the plan, and scalingup essential surgical services at the national level.