Exploring the status of non-communicable disease care during the COVID-19 pandemic in 13 countries
South Africa
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Exploringthestatusofnon-communicablediseasecare
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Nasheeta Peer, Tshephang Mashiane, Michel Oris, Kibachio Joseph Mwangi, Sugitha Sureshkumar, Andre-Pascal Kengne
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Jan 12, 2024
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Jan 12, 2024
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26
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255
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 888 | 14 |
53.8%
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| A lot of patients struggled to get appointments at doctors offices because they only saw critical patients due to a lot of their time being taken up with extra Covid responsibilities. A lot of elective surgeries were also cancelled and only emergency surgeries were made priority. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| All organ transplant were stopped which had severe consequences for the patients and services/the availability of dialysis slots. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| C6(c) | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Cessation of all transplants during COVID. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Collecting of chronic medication especially in the public sector. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Diabetic patients who had been previously diagnosed with/treated for diabetic retinopathy (quite severe in some cases) could not get follow-up appointments/treatments/surgery at their designated tertiary hospital due to services being scaled down and the unavailability of theatres. this could have led to permanent visual impairment for some;however i do not think accurate numbers have been researched. I suspect there is still a big backlog. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Elective surgical patients had to be cancelled/postponed. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Follow-ups for wound care for example was very difficult. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Lack of transport to bring our outpatients from the peripheral hospitals.Cancellation of elective surgery. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| Multiple cancellations of elective cases, complications of surgical conditions while awaiting resumption of elective surgery. | 1 |
3.8%
|
|
| The risk of COVID-19 infection is patients receiving chemotherapy. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Travel, worried about COVID transmission. | 1 |
3.8%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.