Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Trends in traffic collisions and injuries in Kyrgyzstan, 2003–2007

Viola Artikova, Michael E Thompson, Elena Platonova, Gerald F Pyle & Samat Toimatov

Volume 89, Number 5, May 2011, 345-351

Table 2. Traffic collisions that triggered calls to the Ambulance Service Department,a casualtiesb attended and deaths, by year, Kyrgyzstan, 2004–2007

Year Calls (No.) Casualties attended (No.) Deaths (No.)
2004 3246 3997 206
2005 3141 3944 193
2006 3000 3766 270
2007 3587 6596 328

a Data not available from three of four private ambulance services.

b Includes the injured and the dead.

Source: Ambulance Service Department, Kyrgyzstan, as reported by the Republican Medical Information Centre, 2008 (source materials available from corresponding author).