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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Statistics, BARC Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
• ² Department of Surgery, Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College and Dr. Rustom Narsi Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
• ³ Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
• ⁴ Clinic of Surgery, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
• ⁵ Department of Public Health, Institute of Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Maternal Health, UNICEF, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
• ⁷ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁸ The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, BARC Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.