Congress of the Asian Association of Pediatric Surgeons 2010

The Asian Association of Paediatric Surgeons (AAPS) was formed by a group of visionary surgeons who felt that in order to succeed in improving the surgical care for children, Pediatric Surgery must be a dedicated and a separate specialty. The Association would give all surgeons with a similar interest a chance to share their new techniques, developments and sometimes also frustrations. The AAPS has been a huge success, and pediatric Surgery is now a separate specialty with departments of Paediatric Surgery and its subspecialties in most countries. This has had easily visible results - drastically reduced mortality and morbidity, and a chance of a normal and full life for a child, even if born with significant congenital malformations.