International Journal of Contemporary Surgery
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

Pattern of Injuries in Women in Rural Areas Presenting to a Tertiary Care Centre in Western U.P.-A Socio-legal Aspect

  • Author:
  • Anil Kumar1, Somendra Pal Singh2,, Prashant Gupta1, Praveen Singh3, Mohit Gupta3, Swadeep Shrivastava3
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 53 to 57

1Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, U.P.

2Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, U.P.

3Junior Resident, Department of Surgery, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, U.P.

*Corresponding author: Dr Somendra Pal Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, UP RIMS & R, Saifai, Etawah, U.P. Email Id: somendrachauhan@hotmail.com

Online published on 18 February, 2016.

Abstract

Women are the real foundation of our society and unfortunately the most neglected aspect of importance too. Injuries to women is nothing new but a dedicated study to find out the reasons and urgent interventions to interrupt the causes is the need of hour. Being the “Passive recipient” most of the times, they are the most suffered ones.

To find out the frequency of Pattern of injuries in women of rural setting presenting to emergency department so that specific interventions could be planned to prevent these events.

Ours was a Registery based Retrospective study done between July 2014 to July 2015 in which the Pattern of injury of all the females with any age group attending to our emergency was noted.

A total of 658 patient were registered during the study out of which 289 (43.92%) was due to road traffic accidents, 165(28.07%) burn injuries, 87 (13.22%) fall from height, 44 (6.8%) had alleged history of poisoning, 25 (3.79%) suffered domestic violence or assault, 24 (3.64%) had alleged history of firearm injury, 23 (3.49%)due to occupational injury, and 1 (0.15%) case reported due to hanging.

Females are the the major recipient of passive trauma in our society either in Road traffic accidents or in Burn injuries

Keywords

RTA(Road-Traffic Accidents), Women, Burn, Poisoning, Fire-arm Injury, Hanging