Dr Noel Tolgou Yempabe, Consultant Orthopaedic and Head of Trauma Surgery at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), said 947 trauma cases were reported at the Hospital in 2019 from the six regions in northern Ghana.
He said most of those cases were emergency resulting from road traffic accidents, complications from the works of bonesetters, personal and interpersonal violence, self-injury, and assault with its attendant morbidity and mortalities.
