CHILDHOOD ACCIDENTS IN DAR-ES-SALAAM

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 29  (1) , 91-94
Abstract
Childhood accidents in Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] were the 5th cause of admission into pediatric wards totalling 589 cases of 12,375 admissions. Of the accident cases, 37% were due to poisoning, 27% to trauma, 24% to burns, 7% to foreign bodies and 6% to other causes. Lack of parental care, low socio-economic status and large families were important causal factors. There is need to create awareness of hazards of accidents to prevent these unnecessary accidents of childhood.

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