How to manage surgical patients during and early after COVID-19 pandemic: a practical approach for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery, Douala Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Douala.
• ² Department of Internal Medicine and sub-Specialities, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ³ Departement of Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, University teaching Hospital of Fann, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
• ⁴ Department of Anaesthaesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
• ⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and perioperative medicine, Saint Luc University Hospital, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁶ Hypertension clinic, Department of cardiology, UBL-Erasme Hospital, Free Brussels University, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine and specialties, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon.