More operating rooms to offer lifeline to ill children
A Scottish charity has announced plans to build 15 more operating rooms to provide access to safe surgery for children in low and middleincome countries.
Kidsor, founded by Scottish philanthropists Garreth and Nicola Wood, said research showed about 1.7 billion children with routinely treatable conditions lacked access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when needed, resulting in death or permanent disability.
More children aged between five and 14 die every year from surgically-treatable injuries than from malaria, HIV and TB combined. The extra operating rooms will be opened by the end of next year in locations including Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Malawi.