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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>April</strong> 2022<br />
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Bani Adam by Saadi Shirazi<br />
Highlights<br />
Perspectives<br />
Behind the Scenes<br />
Announcements<br />
by passengers they carried and their motorcycles robbed or passengers who were assaulted by<br />
riders and their belongings stolen. In some it was an RTC where a car driver intended to drift past<br />
a boda-boda cyclist and ended up crashing into another car or pedestrians, etc.<br />
Therefore, when we included indirect boda-boda involvements, we discovered that boda-bodas<br />
were involved in more than 50% of all casualty admissions meaning these causes alone bring in<br />
more cases than all other emergency causes combined. This data also doesn’t include those that<br />
pass away on impact or at the site of the accident. On further study, I discovered that on average,<br />
boda-boda accidents kill at least 10 people daily in Kampala alone and this costs the government<br />
4.4 trillion Uganda shillings, approximately 1.3 US billion dollars annually. These accidents cause<br />
more deaths than HIV, diarrheal diseases, and tuberculosis and I believe this calls for some action<br />
to remedy the situation.<br />
With further study, I found five cardinal reasons for this high rate of boda-boda accidents:<br />
negligence of road safety rules, competition for passengers with fellow riders and other public<br />
transport operators, inadequate helmet usage, drug use, and reckless, speedy driving. To a larger<br />
percentage, these are behavioral causes. Since boda-bodas serve such a great purpose, we can’t<br />
do away with them but we can increase safety for both passengers and riders through means such<br />
as digitalization of drivers, driver sensitization of road safety, and provision of protective gear to<br />
riders and passengers alike.<br />
We conducted a study that discovered only 4% of boda-boda accidents involve digitized riders.<br />
Boda-boda accidents can be lowered to negligible levels towards saving lives while lowering the<br />
healthcare burden. I have a detailed scheme on how boda-boda accidents can be lowered by<br />
approximately 80% in three years with partnership from interested individuals. It hurts to see the<br />
constant rise of disabilities and death along with the associated rise in orphans and widows, many<br />
of whom remain helpless due to deaths or permanent disability of their bread-winners. Anyone who<br />
may wish to come to Uganda, look out for this silent killer.<br />
For more information, please contact me at matsikojoshua091@gmail.com or WhatsApp<br />
+256703630454.<br />
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Spotlight<br />
Reflections<br />
Nursing Division<br />
SARS COV-2 Pandemic<br />
and Us<br />
Clinical Case Report<br />
A New Column<br />
Global Health and the Arts<br />
Articles of the Month<br />
Videos of the Month<br />
Calendar<br />
Resources<br />
Parvin Sadigh (Iran)<br />
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