COVID-19 in Ecuador, how the pandemic strained the surgical healthcare systems over the edge

Affiliations

• ¹ Escuela de Medicina, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Department of General Surgery at Hospital Iess Quito Sur, Quito, Ecuador.
• ² Hospital Padre Carollo "Un Canto a la Vida", Grupo Digeslap Center, Quito, Ecuador.
• ³ Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Department of General Surgery at Hospital General San Francisco Iess, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁴ Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Clinica Integral, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁵ Department of General Surgery at Hospital Iess Quito Sur, Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁶ Department of General Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hospital Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador.