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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the health workers' equipment readiness,knowledge, and expertise in managing a large number of traffic accident casualties at HoimaRRH. At Hoima RRH, information was gathered as part of a descriptive cross-sectional studyusing a checklist, open-ended questionnaires, and 60 health workers who were purposefullychosen to participate. When asked if they knew how to perform CPR, study participantsresponded positively. All of those who had EMCST and 38 (90.5%) of those who hadn'tresponded positively were in agreement, with odds ratios of 0.8(0.04-9.01) and P-values of0.013 and 0.013, respectively. Despite the fact that the majority of health professionals—46,or 76.7%—said there was no standby surgeon for patients with traffic causalities. The studyfound that while there was insufficient access to emergency medications for a largepercentage of casualties (rated at 50%), the hospital did have a working blood bank (rankedat 100%). The study found that health workers had strong knowledge (above 66.7%) andmoderate readiness (above 46.7%) in the management of road traffic incidents. The studyfinds that although HRRH had some equipment, (rated at 50%), it was insufficient. Healthworkers needed to be empowered through workshops and trainings on current managementprotocols on managing accident causality patients, and the government should give thehospital more medical equipment