Abstract:
Three hundred first contact medical officers were also included in the study. A check list
developed based on the required facilities included under eight of the nine "domains"
relevant to trauma care, as specified in the TCEM according to proposed four levels of
trauma centers. Consisted of an interviewer administered questionnaire which included
selected socio demographic characteristics , data pertaining to training and level of
satisfaction regarding availability of facilities and training received. The available facilities
was assessed separately for the NHSL and other health care institutions grouped into h
hospital categories according to the new scheme of categorization adopted by the Ministry
of Health recently. Then the available I facilities were compared with the four levels of
trauma care centers as described according to the TCEM. The continuous data were
expressed as means and SD and the chi squared test was applied to test for associations
between " overall satisfaction" and relevant demographic and service related variable
