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cord-293166-gkzebyda	Hoz, Samer S.	Letter to the Editor: “Beyond Containment: Tracking the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Neurosurgery Services in Iraq”	2020-11-03		.txt	text/plain	1348	76	54	title: Letter to the Editor: "Beyond Containment: Tracking the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Neurosurgery Services in Iraq" Letter to the Editor: "Beyond Containment: Tracking the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Neurosurgery Services in Iraq" LETTER: The Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital (NTH) in Baghdad, Iraq, provides neurosurgical care for 4.2 million people-approximately 50% of the population in Baghdad, with a total capacity of 102 beds, 16 neurosurgical intensive care unit (NICU) beds, and 7 operating rooms. Cases requiring less immediate care are only admitted if the condition is deemed to be "urgent." This decision is the responsibility of a newly assembled local hospital committee, composed of 3 senior neurosurgeons. As for patients, a total of 25 acute trauma cases have been confirmed to be positive by immediate postoperative polymerase chain reaction. Such situations are hazardous and require urgent legislative change that determines the COVID-19 status of all admitted patients to be positive unless proven otherwise.	./cache/cord-293166-gkzebyda.txt	./txt/cord-293166-gkzebyda.txt