Table 1.

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of the patients included in the study (n = 814)

Variables	N (%)
Age (years)
16–19	16 (1.97)
20–34	584 (71.74)
≥ 35	214 (26.29)
Place of origin
Urban	544 (66.83)
Rural	270 (33.17)
Type of surgery
Scheduled	255 (31.33)
Emergency	559 (68.67)
Duration of surgery (hours)
< 4	786 (96.56)
≥ 4	28 (3.44)
Blood loss (litres)
< 1.5	812 (99.75)
≥ 1.5	2 (0.25)
Surgical wound infection
Yes	11 (1.35)
No	803 (98.65)