Abstract:
In 2016, responding to the World Health
Assembly resolution (WHA 68/15), Ethiopia
has designed the Saving Lives Through Safe
Surgery (SaLTS) initiative to make essential
and emergency surgical and anesthesia care
accessible and affordable as part of the
universal health coverage. The initiative was
required to reorganize all efforts towards
defining a package of essential and emergency
surgical care to be available at all levels of the
health care delivery system to be accessed
equitably by all segments of the population.
To further the initiative, the five-year strategy
has been launched and executed at all levels of
health care delivery by collaborating with all
state and non-state actors.
