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Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan

Covid-19 pandemic has significantly challenged the healthcare delivery across the world. Surgery departments across the country responded to this challenge by halting all non-emergency procedures. This delay in diagnosis and management of surgical disease could result in significant mortality and mo...

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Autores principales: Qazi, Saqib Hamid, Saleem, Ayesha, Pirzada, Areeba Nadeem, Hamid, La-Raib, Dogar, Sohail Asghar, Das, Jai K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32691128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00383-020-04721-0
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description Covid-19 pandemic has significantly challenged the healthcare delivery across the world. Surgery departments across the country responded to this challenge by halting all non-emergency procedures. This delay in diagnosis and management of surgical disease could result in significant mortality and morbidity among the most vulnerable population-the children. In this manuscript, we discuss the measures adopted as well as the challenges faced by the pediatric surgery department at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi (AKUH), Pakistan, which is a private, not-for-profit entity and providing optimum surgical care to the patients. We also underscore the need for global strategies for tackling such crisis.
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spelling pubmed-73708742020-07-20 Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan Qazi, Saqib Hamid Saleem, Ayesha Pirzada, Areeba Nadeem Hamid, La-Raib Dogar, Sohail Asghar Das, Jai K. Pediatr Surg Int Original Article Covid-19 pandemic has significantly challenged the healthcare delivery across the world. Surgery departments across the country responded to this challenge by halting all non-emergency procedures. This delay in diagnosis and management of surgical disease could result in significant mortality and morbidity among the most vulnerable population-the children. In this manuscript, we discuss the measures adopted as well as the challenges faced by the pediatric surgery department at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi (AKUH), Pakistan, which is a private, not-for-profit entity and providing optimum surgical care to the patients. We also underscore the need for global strategies for tackling such crisis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-07-20 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7370874/ /pubmed/32691128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00383-020-04721-0 Text en © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Qazi, Saqib Hamid
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Das, Jai K.
Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
title Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
title_full Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
title_fullStr Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
title_short Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
title_sort challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of covid 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of pakistan
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32691128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00383-020-04721-0
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