A Retrospective Study on Cause of Death at Janakpur Zonal Hospital, Nepal

 

Satyam Prakash, Krishna Deo Das and Khushbu Yadav
 

 

Full Length Research Paper I Published May, 2017

 

Journal of Medical and Biological Science Research Vol. 3 (2), pp. 9-13

 

ABSTRACT

Death Certificate is the most frequently issued certificate by a government employed medical officer. Medical certification of causes of death is a popular method of presenting mortality statistics and is a useful means for illustrating the relative burden of cause of specific mortality. Therefore, this study was carried out to design the leading cause of death other than the disease and natural death at Janakpur Zonal Hospital, Nepal. A retrospective study was carried out on 290 cases of death due to various reasons which was collected from the Janakpur Zonal Hospital in collabration with Janaki Medical College Teaching Hospital, Janakpurdham, Nepal in 2015 AD. A total of 290 death cases, 13, 6, 17, 22, 41 and 1% death cases were due to drowning, current, hanging, road traffic accident, poisining and thundering, respectively. The highest number of death cases were found as male than female of 20 to 39 years age group of 37.24% followed by below 19 years with 27.93% and found to be statistically insignificant (p=0.328). The highest number of death cases was reported in January to March as 30%. The highest number of death was observed in male (55.93%) than female (44.06%) due to poisoning and was found to be statistically significant (p=0.001). Most of the death cases were found due to poisoning followed by Road traffic accident (RTA). Community based awareness programs and strict rules regarding sale of pesticide will help to prevent the instances of poisoning. Strict implementation of traffic rules and regulations are important measures to avoid RTA.

Key words: Hanging, Medical certification, Poisoning, Road traffic accident (RTA).

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