Burden of malaria cases admitted to medical wards of tertiary care centre at Cuttack.

Kamble Nitin H.; Satapathy Durga M.; Dash Manoj K.

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

Burden of malaria cases admitted to medical wards of tertiary care centre at Cuttack.

Kamble Nitin H. , Satapathy Durga M. , Dash Manoj K.

Abstract :

 Malaria is one of the most important vector borne diseases causing significant morbidity and mortality. There is a need to look at the malaria mortality, morbidity & its contributing factors in tertiary care institutions in the state. On this background an attempt has been made to undertake three year retrospective record based analysis of malarial deaths in Medicine and Paediatrics dept of S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack to assess the burden of malaria cases admitted to tertiary care centre at Cuttack. The data was collected from the bed tickets in the record room of SCB Medical College, Cuttack, over 3 calendar years i.e. 2010, 2011 and 2012, using predesigned and pretested formats. The absolute number of deaths due to malaria over each of the three years 2010, 2011 and 2012 were 644, 657 and 727 respectively. The trend thus is an increasing number of fatalities attributed to malaria.