Covid-19 pandemic on non-Covid patient care and health delivery: An observational study from a large multi-specialty hospital of India,' also revealed that new and follow-up cases dropped by 57.65 per cent in the Covid-19 year.
Outpatient cases attendance dropped by 89 per cent and surgical work dropped by 80 per cent. "The study evaluated the data of 6,77,237 cases (599,281 outpatient and 77,956 hospital admissions) in the past two years (pandemic and pre-pandemic).
It found that there was a significant effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on most spheres of clinical practice, including outpatient attendance and elective surgeries.