GPHC records high rate of victims of domestic violence

Nov 25, 2010 News

– About one in every six females seeking medical attention at GPHC are victims of domestic abuse

The year 2010 has been thought of by many as a “bad year for woman”; mainly because of the brutal deaths of numerous women due to domestic violence. More so, during the three-month period January-March; six women were murdered by their male partners.
It is possibly because of this harsh reality that students of the Vanderbilt University (Canada) in collaboration with Navindranaught Rambaran, HOD, Accident and Emergency Unit, in July, conducted a research project pertaining to the prevalence of “intimate partner violence” (IPV) in the Accident and Emergency Unit (A&E) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Over a period of time, GPHC has been working extensively with the university.
According to the researchers, over a two-week period, 38 persons sought medical attention from the institution as a result of domestic abuse. Of the 38 victims, 31 were of the female gender.
The injuries were said to have been mostly soft issue injuries— lacerations to the face, head or extremities. One patient was admitted to the hospital. According to the research 73.4 per cent of the assaults occurred in the homes of the victims.
The research has shown that the women were between the ages of 20 and 81 with the mean age being 34. It revealed that about one in six women presenting at the GPHC A&E with an injury admitted to being a victim of intimate partner violence (IPV).
According to the researchers, the objective of the study was to “look at the prevalence of intimate partner violence in the GPHC A&E department among patients presenting with traumatic injuries”.
The researchers stated that patients were specifically asked if the injury had been inflicted by a domestic partner. Only patients aged 18 and over were recorded in the research.
It was pointed out that intimate partner violence occurs globally and affects all societies but it is considered to be a preventable problem.
The researchers made reference to the fact that the rate of IPV in men is low but “not insignificant”.
The researchers said that the frequent of IPV in the Guyanese population suggests that identification and intervention programmes as well as resident and staff Education about IPV should be High priority for the GPHC A&E.

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