Surveillance of tuberculosis in a tertiary care Indian teaching hospital

Banani Jena; Rakhi Ludam; Pritam Chhotray; Mahesh Chandra Sahu

Volume : VII, Issue : X, October - 2017

Surveillance of tuberculosis in a tertiary care Indian teaching hospital

Banani Jena, Rakhi Ludam, Pritam Chhotray, Mahesh Chandra Sahu

Abstract :

Aim: To find out the incidence of tuberculosis among the the patients attending in a tertiary care hospital for a period of 3 years, in eastern Odisha.

Methods: We analyzed all reported active tuberculosis cases in a 3–year period, especially among the patients attending at OPD of pulmonary medicine, according to the diagnosis Reports of IMS and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar.

Results: Among the 2000 patients in OPD of pulmonary medicine department of IMS and SUM Hospital, 524 patients were diagnosed as TB. The incidence of tuberculosis was little more in males (284) in comparison to females (240). Half of the total patients presented symptoms of eathlessness. Others presented with chest pain and haemoptysis, fever and generalized weakness.

Conclusion: Still now the incident of tuberculosis at the department of pulmonary medicine increases day by day.