Publications by authors named "Chenchita Malolan"
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- Sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, face significant challenges in accessing quality pre-hospital trauma care services, particularly for road traffic injuries (RTIs).
- This study focused on analyzing data from the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS) regarding road traffic crashes (RTCs) to identify trends and improve emergency response times, leveraging tools like STATA and ArcGIS for spatial and temporal analysis.
- The findings highlighted that peak RTC occurrences happen during busy commuting hours and specific seasons, with traffic congestion being a major cause of delayed emergency responses, particularly in densely populated urban local government areas.
While efforts to understand and mitigate road traffic injury (RTI) occurrence have long been underway in high-income countries, similar projects in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) are frequently hindered by institutional and informational obstacles. Technological advances in geospatial analysis provide a pathway to overcome a subset of these barriers, and in doing so enable researchers to create actionable insights in the pursuit of mitigating RTI-associated negative health outcomes. This analysis develops a parallel geocoding workflow to improve investigation of low-fidelity datasets common in LMICs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Undiagnosed tuberculosis (TB) cases are the major challenge to TB control in Nigeria. An early warning outbreak recognition system (EWORS) is a system that is primarily used to detect infectious disease outbreaks; this system can be used as a case-based geospatial tool for the real-time identification of hot spot areas with clusters of TB patients. TB screening targeted at such hot spots should yield more TB cases than screening targeted at non-hot spots.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Prompt prehospital care (PHC) is essential for improving outcomes of road traffic accident victims. Previous studies in Nigeria show that little or no PHC is delivered to trauma victims by first responders. This study was conducted to assess police officers' experience with FA/BLS, to identify gaps in their FA/BLS knowledge and skills, and assess police stations' FA/BLS equipment capacity for PHC of road traffic accident victims.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The mortality rate from road traffic accidents (RTAs) in Nigeria is almost double that of the USA. In Nigeria, the first emergency medical services (EMS) system was established in March 2001, The Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS). The objectives of this study are to (1) determine the burden of RTAs in Lagos, (2) assess RTA call outcomes, and (3) analyze LASAMBUS's response time and causes for delay.
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