Oyunbileg N 1*, Lkhagvasuren Ts,2 Orgil B 3

Knowledge and skills necessarry to carry out the first aid for injury is important in order to save human life and health. The main objective of this study is to determine the forms of injury, its types, characteristics, frequency, and the current state of providing first aid during the occurrence. We also propose standards directed at improving the quality of first aid in accordance with the needs of the patients. The research involved a total of 920 people, who admitted to the Receipt Units of the Injury Rehabilitation Clinic and Center for Burning and Poisoning in Ulaanbaatar between 18 and 25 of April, 2005. The leading cause of injuries was lack of knowledge and skills of the individuals who were present at the accident site to deliver first aid, accounting for 49% of the injuries that did not received the post-injury first aid. Only 51 or 5.5% of all 920 study subjects attended first aid training. More than seven percent of injured people called the ambulance; 23.3% were delivered to the hospital whereas 69.1% admitted themselves to the hospital and received the hospital care.Traffic and domestic accidents, as well as violence are the main types of population injuries in Mongolia. The knowledge and skills of citizens, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals for providing first aid following accidents are insufficient. The proportion of people who received first aid at the accident site was very low and was dependent on the type of injury.