Pediatric surgery backlog at a Ugandan tertiary care facility: COVID-19 makes a chronic problem acutely worse

BACKGROUND: 1.7 billion of the world’s 2.2 billion children do not have access to surgical care. COVID-19 acutely exacerbated this problem; delaying or preventing presentation and access to surgical care globally. We sought to quantify the effect of COVID-19 on children requiring surgery in Uganda....

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Autores principales: Klazura, Greg, Kisa, Phyllis, Wesonga, Anne, Nabukenya, Mary, Kakembo, Nasser, Nimanya, Stella, Naluyimbazi, Rovine, Sekabira, John, Ozgediz, Doruk, Langer, Monica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35904621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00383-022-05187-y

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