Abstract:
Background; Road transportation provides benefits both to nations and to individuals by
facilitating the movement of goods and people. It enables increased access for daily living and
programs on the country at large. But these increased in access and number of transportation pose a
great challenge in the individuals daily activity ranging from minor injury to death and the nation
also suffers from lose of productive citizens and economic shift to preventable health activities.
Road traffic accidents are a major public health problem in Gelemso general hospital, accounting
for 247 (66.6%) of all trauma victims and the result of 24 (9.4%) deaths and 22 (8.9%) disability.
Although Road Traffic Accidents has high rate of occurrence resulting in high mortality and
morbidity in area, there are less studies done on similar issue in different set ups, but nothing is
done in Gelemso General Hospital.
Objective; to assess the Magnitude of road traffic accident admissions and factors associated
treatment out come in surgical and orthopedic wards in Gelemso General Hospital, Oromia
Regional state, Ethiopia, from May 1, 2015 to June 31, 2018 and the data were collected from Jun
20 – Jun 26, 2018.
Methodology; Hospital based Retrospective cross sectional study were conducted by using
secondary data from different registration books, patient cards and other relevant charts of patients
admitted with road traffic accident from May 1, 2015 to jun3 1, 2018. A total of 369 sample sizes
were investigating during this study. Collected data were later been entered and analyzed using
statistical software package (SPSS ver. 20).Variables with p-value < 0.3 in binary logistic
regression analysis was considered to be entered into multivariate logistic regression. Statistical
significance was based on a p-value of < 0.05 with a confidence interval of 95 %. Frequency
distribution, proportion and other statistical methods and techniques were used to describe and
explain results. Finally tables, charts, graphs and other methods like percentile were used to present
and appraise results.
Result; a total of 369 trauma patient cards was retrieved; from this 247 (66.9%) patens were Road
Traffic Accident victim. The majority age group which involved in RTA was from 20-29 and there
was male preponderance. Road Traffic Accident results 24 (9.4%) of death and 22 (8.9%) disability.
Conclusion & Recommendation; Road traffic accident is an important public health problem
accounting for a substantial proportion of all trauma admissions at Gelemso General Hospital. The
mean age of the victims was 25.5. The highest numbers of victims (36.8%) were aged between 20-
29 years. Urgent preventive measures targeting at reducing the occurrence of Road Traffic
Accidents is necessary to reduce the problem in this region
