Epidemiological Profile of War Wounded in the Emergency Reception Department of the Sominé Dolo Hospital in Mopti

Abstract

The security crisis experienced by our country in 2012 resulted in numerous injuries and deaths linked to terrorist attacks and this required a reorganization of the care of the injured. The objective of this work was to determine the frequency of war wounded at the Sominé Dolo hospital in Mopti (Mali). We realized a single-center descriptive cross-sectional study relating to the files of patients suffering from war injuries and admitted to the emergency reception department of the Sominé Dolo hospital in Mopti (Mali) during the period between January 1, 2020 and October 31, 2022. This hospital represents the largest reference structure in central Mali with per year. During the study period, 5,404 wounded people of all kinds were admitted to the emergency reception service out of a total of 65,740 patients, i.e. a frequency of 8.22%, and 1,540 war wounded were admitted, i.e. a frequency of 2. 34%. The age of war-wounded patients ranged from 6 months to 80 years with an average age of 30.61 years. The patients were divided into 1448 men (94%) and 92 women (6%), giving a sex ratio of 15.74. Patients transported by ambulance to hospital accounted for 62.01%, by plane (18.31%), civil protection (3.38%), other means of transport (16.3%). Half of the injured were received within 6 hours of their trauma. Those injured by firearms represented 79%, and those injured by improvised explosive devices (15%). The mortality rate was 0.39% in the emergency room.