The workshops have included; insights in emergency pediatric surgery conations, disease recognition and referral, neonatal transport, trauma in children and recognition of children with complicated surgical disease. with a couple of workshops conducted in some regions we have noticed an increase in number of babies referred top facilities with pediatric surgeons as a result of increased awareness following a series of workshops and seminars .

The major bottleneck is funding for this activity to expand the course content and target audience in order to reduce on lifelong morbidity for children as we plan to conduct monthly workshops in the different regional referral hospital s country wide and develop standardized training visual materials and learning aids.