Table 2.

Surgical volumes of the twenty-eight pre-defined groups of the most commonly performed pediatric surgical procedures in Sierra Leone in 2012, by age-groups

	1–28 days		29 days–11 months		1–4 years		5–15 years		Total 0–15 years
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
General surgery	32	97	139	81	547	76	829	57	1547	65
Hernia repair	2	6	48	28	195	27	189	13	434	18
Appendectomy	0	0	0	0	3	0.6	151	10	154	7
Laparotomy	6	18	12	9	31	4	136	9	185	8
Incision and drainage abscess	1	3	18	11	36	5	68	5	123	5
General cancer surgery	0	0	0	0	3	0.4	15	1	18	1
Urethral stricture dilatation	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	7	0.5	8	0.3
Chest tube	0	0	3	2	2	0.2	4	0.3	9	0.4
Neonatal surgery	16	49	2	1	0	0	0	0	18	1
Cystostomy	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	2	0.1	3	0.1
Tracheostomy	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	1	0.1	2	0.1
Cleft lip repair	0	0	1	0,6	0	0	1	0.1	2	0.1
General surgery other	7	21	55	32	274	38	255	18	591	25
Obstetric and gynecology	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	108	7	109	5
Cesarean section	0	0	0	0	0	0	75	5	75	3
Dilatation and curettage	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0.6	8	0.3
Hysterectomy	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	1	0.1
Obstetric fistula repair	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.7	10	0.4
Salpingectomy ectopic pregnancy	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	1	0.1
Manual placenta removal	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.2	3	0.1
Cervical or vaginal laceration	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.1	2	0.1
Ob–Gyn other	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	8	0.6	9	0.4
Orthopedic surgery	1	3	18	11	145	20	393	20	557	23
Operative fracture treatment	0	0	0	0	30	4	143	10	173	7
Amputation lower limb	0	0	1	0.6	4	0.6	9	0.6	14	0.6
Conservative fracture treatment	1	3	1	0.6	8	1	13	0.9	23	1
Amputation upper limb	0	0	0	0	4	0.6	13	0.9	17	0.7
Orthopedic cancer surgery	0	0	0	0	3	0.4	1	0.1	4	0.2
Orthopedic surgery other	0	0	16	9	96	13	214	15	326	14
Ophthalmic surgery	0	0	4	2	8	1	59	4	71	3
Cataract surgery	0	0	4	2	8	1	59	4	71	3
Neurosurgery	0	0	7	4	0	0	1	0.1	8	0.3
Missing	0	0	4	2	20	3	65	5	88	4
Total	33	1.4	172	7.2	721	30.2	1455	61	2381	100