You pray to your God: A qualitative analysis of challenges in the provision of safe, timely, and affordable surgical care in Uganda

• Katherine Albutt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kalbutt@partners.org

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1735-7316

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• Rachel R. Yorlets,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maria Punchak,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Peter Kayima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Mbarara, Uganda

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• Didacus B. Namanya,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ministry of Health (MOH), Kampala, Uganda, Uganda Martyrs University (UMU), Nkozi, Uganda

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• Geoffrey A. Anderson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mark G. Shrime

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3546-9867

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