EditorThe COVID-19 pandemic had a global effect on different aspects of life and healthcare system is not an exception. Healthcare services are reshaped to face the increasing number of patients and increased demand of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and clinical staff, most of the services opted to cancel the elective surgeries and run virtual outpatient clinics. We have read with a great interest how Low et al. were able to restructure the surgical services in their centre in Singapore, and we concur with what they have mentioned.We noticed there is no literature referring to conducting the mortality and morbidity (M&M) meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic although Courtney et al have mentioned their experience managing colorectal cancer. We would like to share our experience with conducting the M&M meetings during the pandemic.Acute care surgery is currently one of the few surgical specialties that is fully functional during COVID-19 pandemic in Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the only governmental provider of secondary and tertiary health care services in the State of Qatar with a high patient turnover. In spite of that, we decided to conduct virtual M&M meetings to maintain the same standard of care we are delivering. We are using the Microsoft Teams platform (The institutional platform) and we are conducting the meetings in the evening times out of the working hours. We noticed that the team feels more comfortable and the attendance is more with no interruptions to the meetings. The discussion is based on up to date literature in a healthy patient-centred environment. We are currently conducting the meeting twice a week (Compared to once weekly meeting before the pandemic which might be interrupted by institutional and international visits). This is currently one of the few M&M meetings carried out throughout HMC. [Correction added on 2 September 2020 after first online publication: The authors confirm that their service is one of the very few services instead of the only service available.]
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All authors contributed to this paper. KA wrote the initial draft. RA and AZ revised the manuscript critically as experts. All authors approved the final draft for publication considerations.