Article History
Received: 12 July 2020
Accepted: 1 March 2021
First Online: 9 March 2021
Declarations
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: This study protocol has been fully approved by the ethics committees of the Kano (MOH/Off/797/T.I/518) and Jigawa (MOH/SEC.3/S/829/I) States Ministries of Health. Trial registration for this protocol was obtained from Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR201906515532827). Written informed consent of each eligible participant shall be sought by the recruiting researcher along with the surgeons (where applicable). All data collected will be upheld with utmost confidentiality, individual names of participants is not needed and as such will not be collected.
: Not presently applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.