Citation

Millar TM, McConnachie CC. Injury 2007; 38(2): 147-149.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wrightington Hospital, Wigan, UK. tmsmillar@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.injury.2006.06.118

PMID

16979171

Abstract

The Bedford Orthopaedic Centre is situated in Umtata at the heart of the former homeland of the Transkei in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. It acts as an orthopaedic and trauma referral hospital for a mainly rural population approaching 4 million. This article focuses on the workload of the hospital over a 4-month period and like many hospitals in South Africa we highlight the difficulties it faces with the trauma epidemic.

Language: en