Health Bulletin 2009

Medical College Hospitals
In Bangladesh, medical college hospitals are the teaching hospital for medical students of
undergraduate and postgraduate level and usually provide tertiary healthcare to the patients.
The following table shows distribution of patients of the government medical college hospitals of
Bangladesh. MIS-health received data from indoors of 6 medical college hospitals in year 2008
and the top-10 diseases in all age category include diarrhea (12.2%), suppurative otitis media
(5.3%), assault (4.6%), head injury (3.9%), pneumonia (3.4%), COPD (3.0%), arthritis (2.9%),
bronchiolitis (2.8%), tonsillitis (2.7%), bronchial asthma (2.4%). The distribution is seen I the
following table.
Percent distribution of top-10 diseases among indoor patients of government medical
college hospitals in 2008
Position 0-28 d 29d-11m 1-4y 5-14y 15-24y 25-49 y 50+ All age
1
Septicemia
31.1%
Diarrhea
30.5%
Diarrhea
23.1%
Diarrhea 27.3%
Head Injury
11.9%
Assault 8.4% CVA 7.7%
Diarrhea
12.2%
2 Anemia 14.1%
Bronchiolitis
18.2%
Congenital
Heart Disease
7.3% COPD 7.3%
Suppurative
Otitis Media
9.4%
Head Injury
5.3%
Assault 7.3%
Suppurative
Otitis Media
5.3%
3
Pneumonia
6.1%
Pneumonia
11.7%
Suppurative
Otitis Media
6.9%
Suppurative
Otitis Media
5.9%
Assault 8.2% Arthritis 5.2%
Road Traffic
Accident 6.8%
Assault 4.6%
4
Allergic
Reaction 5.1%
Suppurative
Otitis Media
5.9%
Bronchiolitis
6.5%
Tonsillitis 5.1% Arthritis 4.4%
Heart failure
4.1%
Arthritis 5.6%
Head Injury
3.9%
5
Congenital
Heart Disease
3.4% Anemia 4.1% Tonsillitis 6.5%
Bronchial
Asthma 4.9%
Poisoning
4.0%
Abortion 3.0%
Hypertension
5.0%
Pneumonia
3.4%
6
Valvular Heart
Disease 1.7%
Septicemia
3.9%
Pneumonia
6.3%
Hypertension
3.1%
Tonsillitis
3.9%
Suppurative
Otitis Media
3.0%
COPD 3.9% COPD 3.0%
7
Bronchiolitis
0.8%
Protein
Energy
Malnutrition
2.9%
Bronchial
Asthma 3.6%
Pneumonia
2.7%
Abortion 3.1%
Peptic Ulcer
2.8%
Bronchial
Asthma 2.6%
Arthritis 2.9%
8
Diarrhoea
0.6%
Allergic
Reaction
2.4%
Tuberculosis
(Pulmonary)
3.5%
Enteric Fever
2.3%
Road Traffic
Accident 2.8%
Poisoning
2.7%
Peptic Ulcer
2.5%
Bronchiolitis
2.8%
9
Dysentery
0.6%
Bacillary
Dysentery
2.1%
Protein Energy
Malnutrition
2.9%
Heart failure
2.0%
COPD 2.1% COPD 2.6% C.C.F 2.1%
Tonsillitis
2.7%
10
Hemolytic
Jaundice
0.5%
Congenital
Heart Disease
1.8%
Dysentery
2.4%
Thalassemia
1.9%
Peptic Ulcer
2.0%
Diabetes
Mellitus 2.4%
Heart failure
1.9%
Bronchial
Asthma 2.4%
No. of
Patients 6,580 20,863 28,611 41,226 44,216 43,057 29,180 2,13,733
Upazila Health Complex
The MIS-health, DGHS received morbidity status on the indoor patients of 301 upazila health
complexes out of 322 for the year 2008 (January - December). The top-10 disease profiles of
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