Profile of Pediatric Admission in Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS), Jumla
Abstract
Introduction: The knowledge of morbidity as well as mortality pattern of hospital admission is important to understand the prevalent disease trends and magnitude of health problems for future health care planning and implementing interventional strategies for improving the present health services.
Objective: To determine the disease pattern and their outcome among the pediatric admission.
Methodology: This retrospective study was conducted analysing all the pediatric cases who were admitted in Pediatrics department of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS), Jumla over a period of one year from January 2016 to December 2016. All the admitted cases were analysed for age group, gender, geographical distribution, disease according to organ system and their outcome.
Results: Among 482 admitted cases, there were 328 (68%) male and 154 (32%) female children and 370 (76.7%) children were under 5 years of age. Of the total cases, majority presented with respiratory diseases (37%) followed by infectious diseases (20.7%) and gastrointestinal diseases (19.5%). The main diseases observed were pneumonia (29%) and acute gastroenteritis (17.4%). Mortality was 0.4%.
Conclusion: The majority of pediatrics morbidity is accounted by respiratory, infectious diseases and gastrointestinal diseases. Most of the pediatrics admission were under five age group which is the most vulnerable period for morbidities and mortality hence the implementation of various health promotion and protection strategies and policies targeted towards this age group should be strengthened and continued.
Key words: Morbidity, mortality, admission
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