Idowu EO*

Department of Emergency Medicine, University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan; Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

*Corresponding Author: Idowu EO, Department of Emergency Medicine, University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria; Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Department of Anatomy, College of medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Received: January 29, 2024; Published: March 05, 2024

Abstract

It was reported that explosives: dynamites being stored by some expatriate miners living in one of the apartments at the area generated palpable shock waves in neighboring and distant places from the site of event. It was a sad moment on 17/01/2024 in Ibadan, Nigeria as there was a massive explosion which occurred between 7:30 and 7:45 pm, at the Old Bodija axis (close to Dejo Oyelese street) behind the late Chief Bola Ige's residence. The said site was visited same night by deployed security personnels, and the emergency rescue team with mobilization of medical doctors living within and outside the Bodija perimeter to be on the alert. Many of the victims had various levels of blast injuries ranging from depressed skull fractures with underlying surface collection (epidural hematoma) requiring emergency neurosurgical intervention, different degrees lacerations and avulsions, to long bone fractures, early post-traumatic seizures, tympanic membrane perforations, etc. Victims received treatments at various private hospitals, general hospitals, primary health care centers, and the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Mortalities were recorded as many lost their lives during this unfortunate incident. In the 33-bedded emergency department of the University College Hospital Ibadan with patients already on admission, effective sorting, triage, transfers were made with mobilization of the necessary resources by the hospital management and effective rescue operations initiated. With effective triage disaster preparedness and management protocol, excellent clinical outcome was recorded. Lessons learnt will inform better disaster management policies and operationalization.

Keywords: Ibadan; Explosion; Disaster Medicine; Emergency Physician; Blast Injury; Victims; Survivors

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Citation

Citation: Idowu EO. “The Ibadan Shock Waves Report: The Impact, Disaster Medicine Management, System Audit, the Lessons and Recommendations".Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 8.3 (2024): 190-193.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2024 Idowu EO. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.