Challenges to delivering pediatric surgery services in the midst of COVID 19 crisis: experience from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan
| Autor: | Saqib Hamid Qazi, Ayesha Saleem, Sohail Asghar Dogar, La Raib Hamid, Areeba Nadeem Pirzada, Jai K Das |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia Viral education Comorbidity Review Article Disease Pediatric surgery Tertiary Care Centers 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030225 pediatrics Pandemic medicine Humans Pakistan Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Challenges Child Pandemics business.industry COVID-19 Global strategy General Medicine Tertiary care hospital University hospital medicine.disease humanities Surgical Procedures Operative Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Surgery Medical emergency Coronavirus Infections business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Surgery International |
| ISSN: | 1437-9813 0179-0358 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00383-020-04721-0 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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