Sustaining momentum: Building on a decade of global surgery progress

Abstract

Global Surgery has had an eventful decade as a discipline within global health and a movement towards universal health coverage. Nepogodiev and colleagues provide a timely appraisal of progress and gaps since the 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS)^1,2. The documentation of policy advancements in National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAPs), recognition of surgery in World Health Organisation resolutions, and acknowledgement of persisting gaps in the monitoring of six indicators offer a foundation for future interventional focuses. The article’s emphasis on vertical integration, environmental sustainability, and gender-equitable leadership is important to the global surgery agenda.