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Traffic accidents: 1.3 million deaths every year

Luanda, Angola.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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The leading cause of death among young people and children aged 5 to 29, traffic accidents cause 1.3 million deaths each year, to which are added between 20 and 50 million injuries, a large proportion of whom retain a disability due to trauma. 

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According to the WHO, it is in the African region that the death rate from road accidents is the highest.

More than half of those killed on the roads are “vulnerable users”: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.

What are the main factors of traffic accidents?

How to improve prevention?

What is the course of an accident victim, from first aid to discharge from hospital?    

• Dr Massamba Sassoum Diop,

  emergency doctor and president of

  SOS doctors in Dakar

  , Senegal.

  Emergency physician at

  SAMU

  de l'Essonne, in the Paris region.

  President of the

  Senegalese Society of Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

• Germain Houngbedji,

  physiotherapist, teacher at the Higher School of Physiotherapy of the Faculty of Sciences and Health of the

  University of Abomey-Calavi in ​​Cotonou 

  , Benin

• Aziz Sanogo,

  volunteer involved in prevention and awareness of the

  Red Cross in Ouagadougou

  in Burkina-Faso.

At the end of the program, we find the sports chronicle of

, sports doctor.

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