Providing a platform for access to universal health services including safe surgical services is the best economic investment any national government can make according to Professor Atul Gawande MD, Harvard School of Public Health. Prof. Gawande was speaking as part of the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists' launch of its new Safe Anaesthesia for Everyone Today (SAFE T) campaign at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA) in Hong Kong.