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surgical pathologies contribute huge portion global burden diseases surgical needs therefore remain high projected increase even near future increasing life expectancy comorbidities given projection 16 worlds population older 65 years 2050 outcome patients surgical pathologies could influenced several factors key amongst quality care mortality outcome one metric could used assess quality surgical care health facility hence study objective determining pattern inpatient mortality surgical wards suggesting possible ways addressing identified gaps care delivery may also improve care centers retrospective cohort study surgical inpatients mortality surgical wards ahmadu bello university teaching hospital january 1st 2016 december 31st 2019 data analyzed using statistical package social sciences spss version 200 presented descriptive statistics total 8862 admissions made surgical wards 655 deaths giving crude mortality rate 74 deaths occurred patients 4660 years age group 217 331 malignancy commonest surgical condition 294 487 n604 followed traumarelated conditions 96 159 n604 civil gunshot injury admissions showed upward trend 19 2017 exponential rise 45 2019 although malignancy related deaths predominated amongst surgical inpatients incidences deaths road traffic burns injuries well septic surgical conditions also worrisomely high rise civil gunshot related injury admissions deaths