The impact of COVID-19 on maxillofacial and oral surgery service in a tertiary hospital in South Africa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Morkel, J.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sallies, Moegamat | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-03-03T12:29:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-03-03T12:29:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | COVID-19, the coronavirus disease of 2019 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (SC2) virus, imposed a burden on healthcare institutions worldwide. On 5 March 2020, the first confirmed COVID-19 case was identified in South Africa. On 23 March 2020, the president of the Republic of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa, announced a state of disaster along with a national lockdown which was initiated on midnight, 26 March 2020 (Parker et al. 2020). The lockdown restrictions had numerous effects on the healthcare system. Maxillofacial and oral surgery which is a surgical specialty of dentistry with a strong footprint in medicine was also affected (Yadav et al. 2019). Since the Maxillofacial and Oral surgery departments were not on the front line of the struggle, elective surgeries were cancelled and postponed as the situation developed to make more beds available and offer material and human resources for the evolving health emergency (Saibene et al. 2020). This study aimed to document how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the surgical services rendered under general anaesthesia at the Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery at Tygerberg Oral Health Centre, by comparing two consecutive intervals, one period occurring before the pandemic (26 March 2019 - 21 September 2019) and the other during the pandemic (26 March 2020 - 21 September 2020). | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/20277 | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.title | The impact of COVID-19 on maxillofacial and oral surgery service in a tertiary hospital in South Africa | |
| dc.type | Thesis |