Author(s)

Toha Georges Kuyigwa¹, Ona Longombe Ahuka², Namugusha Alain Kabakuli¹, Jeff Maotela Kabinda¹, Akinja Bitum Uwonda³

¹Medical School, Catholic University of Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
²Medical School of Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.
³Medical School of Mbuji Mayi, Mbuji Mayi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Background: Rapid urbanization and increasing fleet in low-income countries are the basis of the higher rate of trauma and fractures. In a post conflict environment, the abnormal movement of firearms and poverty from them may change the configuration’s epidemiological, anatomical and clinical fractures of the limbs bones as well as their care. Goal: To make an inventory on the fractures of the limb bones in Bukavu town, a town in post armed conflict. Method: This work is transversal, retrospective and descriptive on 500 fractures of the limbs bones recorded on a period of 3 months from 1^st June to 31^st August 2013. Twenty investigators went around different places of Bukavu town to interview and complete a research protocol ad hoc. In total, we recorded 500 subjects with 570 fractures of the limb bones. Results: The average age is 29.4 years old and 37% are male fractured. The main circumstances of occurrence of the fracture of the limbs bones are the falls (31.7%), firearms (22.2%) followed closely by road traffic accidents (21.9%). Students (38.6%) and the unemployed (29.4%) are most victims’ fractures of limb bones. The forearm bones (31.7%) and leg bones (27.2%) are most concerned, 52.2% fractured turned to modern medicine against 41.8% for traditional medicine. Conclusion: The fractures of the limbs bones in Bukavu mainly concern young male subjects. They occur with the waning of a fall and preferentially affect the bones of the forearm. Good governance would reduce the incidence of fractures of the limbs bones and their assessment.

Fractures of the Limbs Bones, Young Male People, A Town in Post Conflict

Kuyigwa, T. , Ahuka, O. , Kabakuli, N. , Kabinda, J. and Uwonda, A. (2015) Fracture of Limbs Bones in a Town in Post Conflict (Case of Bukavu Town). Open Journal of Epidemiology, 5, 244-250. doi: 10.4236/ojepi.2015.54028.