Concerted actions need to be taken to offer timely CS to women in need and to advocate for a
rationale use of CS in countries with a surplus and unnecessary use of this procedure. One
possible outcome of this approach would be to progressively engage professional associations,
health care organizations and the general public in richer countries to support programes aimed
at providing emergency obstetric care in very low resource settings. The argument of some
countries having more of what others totally lack, which for example has been used in the past
to generate awareness and stimulate international action in cases of food crisis and famine in
the third world, could apply to the lack of CS and emergency obstetric care as well.