The collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical health care in sub-Saharan Africa
dc.contributor.author | Chu, Kathryn | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.author | Reddy, Ché L | en_Za |
dc.contributor.author | Makasa, Emmanuel | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-22T06:40:23Z | en_ZA |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-22T06:40:23Z | en_ZA |
dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | en_ZA |
dc.description | CITATION: hu K, Reddy CL, Makasa E. 2020.The collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical health care in sub-Saharan Africa. J Glob Health.10(2):020347. doi.10.7189/jogh.10.020347. | en_ZA |
dc.description | The original publication is available at: jogh.org | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the globe at an unprecedented pace. The first COVID-19 case arrived in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on February 28, 2020, and there are over 600 000 cases spread across the continent [1]. The World Health Organisation has predicted up to a quarter of a billion infections on the continent [2]. In preparation, SSA countries have sharply downscaled non-COVID-19 health services, including emergency and essential surgical health care (EESC). However, surgical conditions contribute up to a third of the global burden of disease [3]. | en_ZA |
dc.description.version | Publisher’s version | en_ZA |
dc.format.extent | 5 pages | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | hu K, Reddy CL, Makasa E. 2020.The collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical health care in sub-Saharan Africa. J Glob Health.10(2):020347. doi.10.7189/jogh.10.020347. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.other | doi.10.7189/jogh.10.020347. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126688 | en_ZA |
dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Edinburgh University Global Health Society | en_ZA |
dc.rights.holder | Authors retain copyright | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Collateral damage | en_ZA |
dc.subject | COVID-19 -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Surgical intensive care -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Mortality -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | en_ZA |
dc.subject | World health | en_ZA |
dc.title | The collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic on surgical health care in sub-Saharan Africa | en_ZA |
dc.type | Article | en_ZA |