Global Neurosurgery – The Problem and Solution -The Asian Perspective

Abstract

1.       INTRODUCTION

The world of Neurosurgery has witnessed a quantum jump in the last few decades. However, this progress has reaped benefits for patients' income countries; the preventable deaths due to surgical deficit are as high as 47 million annually (1). Given this uneven balance of facilities in the health sector, the WHO has agreed to resolve the issues by participating in worldwide governing bodies of neurosurgery faculties in the individual country. The former president of the world bank was quoted that "surgery is an indivisible, indispensable part of health care and progress towards universal health coverage (2).