Watch: Restarting Non-Emergency Surgery in LMICs

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the delay or cancellation of tens of thousands of non-emergent essential surgeries. Now that many countries have flattened their COVID-19 curves and increased their health system response capacity, hospitals are planning to restart non-emergent essential surgery.

The online event featured contributions, among others, from Dr. Droussi, a volunteer Plastic Surgeon in Morocco, Dr. Chu, the Director of the Centre for Global Surgery at Stellenbosch University and Dr Nagral, the Director of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai.

Key Learning Objectives

1. To understand the potential pre-requisites and factors to consider before restarting essential surgery and other services.

2. To share the experiences of other countries that have restarted essential surgery after COVID-19 and Ebola.

3. To be familiar with the existing professional guidelines on the restarting on non-emergency surgery.

4. To be familiar with the ethical issues and patient informed consent issues surrounding the restarting on non-emergent surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.