National Surgical Care Strategic Plan: Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery II (SaLTS II) 2021–2025

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.