Screening & triage
Community mobilization and pre-operative clinics identify surgical indications and anesthesia readiness.
Surgical Camps
Bringing pediatric surgery closer
to the children who need it.
Multi-day outreach camps delivering free pediatric surgical care to underserved regions.
Impact in numbers.
Each camp pairs SAPS surgeons with local hospitals, anesthesia teams and community health workers — providing surgery, follow-up and capacity building under one program.
Figures aggregate voluntary reporting across SAPS-supported outreach rotations from partner hospitals — updated annually after reconciliation with surgical audits.
1,200+
Children treated
45
Camps conducted
18
Districts reached
96%
Follow-up rate
Camp lifecycle
From screening to follow-up on every deployment
Theatre blocks
Multi-day operative schedules with sterilization standards and PACU staffing coordinated with host hospitals.
Follow-through
Dressings review, complication drills and referrals booked before SAPS teams redeploy.
Host sites
Locally anchored, nationally coordinated
SAPS selects districts together with ministries of health and hospital directors — prioritizing areas with backlog volumes but limited pediatric elective theatre capacity.
- Secure sterile corridors and anesthesia backup negotiated ahead of arrival
- Community liaison translates schedules into neighborhoods served
- Equipment manifests donated by sponsors audited against WHO perioperative checklists
Volunteer & sponsor
Bring expertise or logistics support to the next camp
Surgeons, anesthesiologists, scrub nurses and sterile-processing mentors travel alongside biomedical staff. NGOs fund implants, transport kits or lodging blocks — SAPS centralizes roster safety credentialing.
Volunteer & inquiriesPlanning visits near your hospital?
Provincial coordinators publish tentative corridors quarterly; subscribe via SAPS contact desk so outreach teams can synchronize anesthesia onboarding materials early.