Impact of the Soweto football derby on the trauma emergency department at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, a tertiary level hospital in South Africa
Charles Baggott, Deirdré Kruger, Riaan Pretorius, Donovan Anthony McGrowder, Uday Bhaskar Manda, Uday Bhaskar Manda

TL;DR
This study examines how the Soweto football derby impacts trauma cases at a major South African hospital, finding increased severe injuries post-match.
Contribution
The study provides novel insights into trauma patterns during and after the Soweto Derby in a low-to-middle-income country context.
Findings
Significantly more P1 (most severe) trauma patients presented post-match compared to non-derby days.
Young African males were disproportionately affected by severe trauma during the derby period.
There was a notable drop in male ED visits during the match itself.
Abstract
The Soweto Derby is one of Africa’s largest football derbies. The two rival teams, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, both originate in Soweto, a sprawling township 20km outside Johannesburg. Soweto is infamous for the high levels of violent crime and trauma, but also for Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH), with one of the world’s largest trauma emergency departments (ED). Research globally, describing the impact of sports events on public health care systems is conflicting, with evidence showing both increases and decreases in spectator related trauma. This paper seeks to describe the trauma burden during the Soweto Derby and add to the research concerning trauma relating to sporting derbies in low to middle income countries. To analyze the impact of the Soweto Derby on the trauma ED at CHBAH over a 24-hour period. A retrospective comparative study at the CHBAH Trauma…
Genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases, species, mutations and cell lines named across the full text — each resolved to its canonical identifier and authoritative record.
Click any figure to enlarge with its caption.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsTrauma and Emergency Care Studies · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
