The impact of commercial healthcare on the quality of anesthesia care

Abstract

The direct impact of increased commercialization of healthcare systems, especially in the low- and middle-income countries, on the quality of anesthesia care is seen. With the profit-based schemes, most of the trained workers will be eliminated, remaining employees will get overburdened, cost-cutting will diminish access to proper monitoring apparatus, and no effort will be put into training the workers for additional training. This editorial discusses how privatization of healthcare services affects the quality of anesthesia, patient outcomes, systemic gaps, provider burnout, breach of safety, and nonadherence to perioperative standards.

Keywords: Anesthesia; Burnout; Equity; Healthcare Privatization; Health Systems; Patient Safety; Quality of HealthCare; Surgical Procedures

Abbreviations: CME: continued medical education, NHA: National Health Authority, PPA: public–private partnerships, PSA: Pakistan Society of Anesthesiologists, WFSA: World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists

Citation: Batool A, Sana M. The impact of commercial healthcare on the quality of anesthesia care (Editorial).
Anaesth. pain intensive care 2025;29(8):828-830. DOI: 10.35975/apic.v29i8.3003

Received: October 06, 2025; Accepted: October 09, 2025