Retrospective Study on Prevalence of Burn Injury among Children at St Francis Referral Hospital Morogoro Tanzania

Burn injury may be defined as an injury to the tissue caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, cold, radiation or contact friction Fire-related burns are the eleventh cause of death for under ten years. Thermal burns are the fifth leading cause of deaths in the US that occur at home, third leading cause of accidental injury-related fatalities in under five and adolescents. Infants are at high risk for death from burns injury, while the total in children consists a global rate ranging from 3.0 to 4.9 deaths per 100 000 population [1]. The survivors live with varying degree of disability and psychological effects. Burn-related deaths show regional variation on which most of the deaths occur in poorer countries of Africa, SouthEast Asia and the low- income and middle-income countries of the Eastern Mediterranean while the low death rates are in American and European societies. The recent evidence of national mortality rate is associated with cultural and socio-economic status of patients. Burn injuries are currently the fifth cause of death in the United States (US) which are domestic in nature, and third leading cause of unintentional fatality injury among children and adolescents [2].