Global Children's Surgery
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The Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) started in 2015 as a small group of pediatric surgeons and has now grown to encompass all specialties that provide care for kids when they need surgery. Our focus is to ensure that all children have access to safe, timely surgical care when needed. Our vision is that surgical care will be within reach of all children.
In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), children die needlessly of treatable conditions, like appendicitis, or become disabled from broken bones or burns. They also die or are disabled because they cannot access care for common birth defects such as cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, and intestinal abnormalities -- conditions with near 100% survival in high-income countries.
We are currently raising funds to help providers of children's surgery (surgeons, anesthetitics, and nurses) from LMICs to attend our 3rd meeting in Vellore, India in January 2018. Each of the 50 providers who require assistance with funding needs about $1,500 to cover the cost of a plane ticket, hotel, visa, and food. Doctors in low income countries are poorly compensated, and they will miss work to participate in this meeting.
Your support of this effort would be greatly appreciated. 100% of the funds will be donated to the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (minus the GoFundMe fee). For more information, please visit our website at http://www.globalchildrenssurgery.org.
Sincerely,
The GICS Organizer Group:
Diana L. Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS
President, American Pediatric Surgical Association
Chair, Department of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center
Kokila Lakhoo, MBCHB, PhD, FRCS(ENG+EDIN), FCS(SA), MRCPCH(UK)
Jamie Anderson, MD MPH
Naomi Wright, MD
In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), children die needlessly of treatable conditions, like appendicitis, or become disabled from broken bones or burns. They also die or are disabled because they cannot access care for common birth defects such as cleft lip and palate, clubfoot, and intestinal abnormalities -- conditions with near 100% survival in high-income countries.
We are currently raising funds to help providers of children's surgery (surgeons, anesthetitics, and nurses) from LMICs to attend our 3rd meeting in Vellore, India in January 2018. Each of the 50 providers who require assistance with funding needs about $1,500 to cover the cost of a plane ticket, hotel, visa, and food. Doctors in low income countries are poorly compensated, and they will miss work to participate in this meeting.
Your support of this effort would be greatly appreciated. 100% of the funds will be donated to the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (minus the GoFundMe fee). For more information, please visit our website at http://www.globalchildrenssurgery.org.
Sincerely,
The GICS Organizer Group:
Diana L. Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS
President, American Pediatric Surgical Association
Chair, Department of Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center
Kokila Lakhoo, MBCHB, PhD, FRCS(ENG+EDIN), FCS(SA), MRCPCH(UK)
Jamie Anderson, MD MPH
Naomi Wright, MD
Organizer
Jamie Anderson
Organizer
Sacramento, CA
