Friday 15 / November / 2024
Muscat: Trauma cases, either due to road accidents or other kinds of incidents, accounted for more than two thirds of emergencies dealt with by the ambulance services, according to the latest government data.
More than 70 per cent of the emergency calls that ambulance services responded to were of trauma cases, either due to road accidents or other cases, the
data showed.
“The number of ambulance services provided in Oman in response to requests involving trauma and medical emergency cases stood at 11,123. Among these, trauma cases topped the list with 8,259 (74 per cent of the total cases), while medical cases numbered 2,864 (26 per cent),” the National Centre for Statistics and Information said in its
latest release.
An official of the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) clarified that the trauma cases referred to injuries sustained in road accidents as well as other incidents.
Of the total, as many as 6,078 cases had occurred in the governorate of Muscat.
Al Batinah North came second, registering 1,864 ambulance-assisted interventions, accounting for 17 per cent of the total cases, while Dhakhliyah recorded 826 cases, claiming a share of 7 per cent.Al Batinah South had 760 calls for ambulance services, while Buraimi had 408 requests.
Ambulance services were availed in 380 cases in the Dhofar governorate, whereas Sharqiah North logged 352 ambulance services calls.
In the case of Dhahirah, 170 such emergency cases were reported in which ambulance assistance was needed.
In Sharqiah South, the number of such cases stood at 126.
The number of times ambulance services were offered in the governorates of Musandam and Al Wusta stood at 93 and 76, respectively, the lowest instance among the governorates.
According to the NCSI, there was a 9.3 per cent rise in the number of expatriates who lost their lives in road accidents during the first 11 months of 2016, compared with the same period last year.
As many as 223 expatriates, 29 of them females, died in road accidents during this period.
On the other hand, the number of Omanis who lost their lives in road accidents fell by 6.7 per cent to 393, which included 62 females.
The number of Omani males who died in road accidents fell by 6 per cent to 331, compared with a 10.1 per cent drop in the number of Omani female deaths.
In contrast, the number of fatalities went up by 6 per cent to 194 among expatriate males,
and by 38.1 per cent among expatriate females.
During the same period, cases of injuries in such accidents declined by 23.1 per cent to 2,604 from 3,388 cases logged in the same period last year.
The number of Omanis injured in traffic accidents decreased by 24.4 per cent to 1,949, while the number of injured expatriates dipped 19 per cent to 655.
The number of Omani males injured in road accidents dropped by 23.8 per cent to 1,455, while the number of Omani females who were injured declined by 26.2 per cent to 494.
The number of injured expatriate males fell by 20 per cent to 567, while that of injured female expatriates fell by 12.9 per cent to 88, as of the end of November.
Overall, the number of road accidents, resulting in both injuries and deaths, fell by 35.6 per cent during January-November this year, compared with the same period in 2015.
