New Delhi, May 17 -- As the Government's entire healthcare system is focused on management of Covid-19, non-coronavirus surgical care is now getting the least priority. As many as 5,80,000 planned surgeries here might be cancelled or delayed, according to a study conducted by CovidSurg Collaborative, a research network of over 5,000 surgeons from 120 countries.
The study, led by members based in the UK, Benin, Ghana, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Rwanda, Spain, South Africa and the US, has been published in the British Journal of Surgery.
"During the COVID-19 pandemic elective surgeries have been cancelled to reduce the risk of patients being exposed to COVID-19 in hospital, and to support the wider hospital response, for example by conv...