Luciana C Chiapella, Cecilia L Lazzarini, Silvana M Montenegro
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Medicina
access quality timely care prevents unnecessary deaths morbidity potentially curable surgical diseases study describes magnitude unmet surgical needs nigerian community describes experiences garnered surgical outreach organized tertiary institution underserved community descriptive study highlighting details surgical outreach community southwestern part nigeria project based collaboration university teaching hospital gown community town details patients demographic disease characteristics well barriers seeking medical care obtained operational workflow treatment offered outcomes highlighted results presented descriptive statistics twoday period 83 3056 patients screened surgically treatable conditions 27 predominantly hernias 37 466 goitres 13 157 soft tissue swellings 9 108 majority adults 56 675 27 325 paediatric age group mean duration symptoms 864 months 95 months half patients 469 never visited medical facility account index illnesses lack funds cited many patients main reason presented hospital sixtythree surgical operations performed perioperative adverse events lack financial access major barrier surgical care sampled community moving gown town helped address significant proportion unmet needs relatively short period tertiary hospitals provide surgical oversight communities within jurisdiction using approach