The Present Condition and Future Problems in Pediatric Surgery at the Kagoshima Area

Abstract

Kagoshima prefecture is located most southern part of Japan including many isolated island. In this are, two million population and twenty thousand birth number in each year was found and about fifty cases in neonatal surgical patients were treated in each year. In this peper, many future problems of pediatric surgery including pre and postgraduated education, and clinical and research studies were discussed.