[Co-morbidities, covid-19 infection and surgical pathologies. Case of the department of visceral and general surgery of Souro Sanou hospital in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)].

Burkina Faso recorded its first case of Covid-19 on March 09, 2020 but it was on April 1, 2020 that the general and visceral surgery department of the Center Hospitalier Universitaire Sourô SANOU (CHUSS) in Bobo-Dioulasso recorded its first case of COVID-19 and surgical pathology. From April to September 2020, our service recorded four cases, all male patients and tested positive for Covid-19 disease after an oropharyngeal sample performed using the RT- kit. PCR Detection kit for 2019-n COV RNA (Da An Gene Co) and the AriaMx (Real-Time PCR System) platform. The four patients were aged 63, 70, 60 and 66, respectively, and were being treated for blunt chest trauma, leg gangrene, bladder tumor and gastric adenocarcinoma. Two patients died in the ward. The other two had been transferred to the regional center specializing in the management of the COVID-19 with a favorable outcome. The impact of Covid-19 in 2020, observed in the general and visceral surgery department of the CHUSS, was a 82% decrease in surgical activities.