Provincial surgical service status during economic recession.
The work of the Saratov region surgical service in 2008-2009 during the peak of the economic cri- sis is analyzed. Assessment of human resources in district, urban (interdistrict centres) and regional (ѕoblastї) general surgical hospitals with the lack of surgeons and anaesthesiologists is given. It resulted in changes of morbidity in surgical pathology at different levels of surgical hospitals. Those changes are: total increase of the number of patients admitted to hospitals, decrease of the number of operations, displacement of morbidity to the ѕurgentї side, increase of general and postoperative mortality and the number of complications.