Mortality Burden of Non Communicable Disease – A Retrospective Study In A Tertiary Care Hospital of Bangladesh

Abstract

Pattern of mortality gives a picture of disease burden of a community and helps in evaluation of health care system. A retrospective study was done in medicine wards of a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh from 1st July 2014 to 30st June 2015 to see the mortality pattern. Data obtained from death and admission registrar. Total 1306 deaths were recorded. Mortality rate was 7%. Male female ratio was 1.65:1. Average age at death was 56.05 years. Highest 11.3% death occurred in January, 48.6% deaths occurred during night shift. Average stay in hospital was 42.1 hours. Non communicable disease causing 87%, communicable disease causing 8.8% deaths and 4.2% were brought dead and undiagnosed. Stroke and IHD caused 54.1% deaths. Among diagnosed causes, ratio of NCD and CD was 9.9:1.Bangladesh J Medicine Jan 2016; 27(1) : 22-26

Emergency Medical Rescue Services in Dhaka City, Bangladesh: A Situational Analysis and Needs Assessments

“…Our document analysis of 2 major hospitals in Dhaka city showed that 45.9% of the deaths in 2014 were due to CVDs, RTIs, other accidents or injuries, and suicidal attempts. This is similar to the findings in other parts of Bangladesh [15,18,28,29]. These analyses showed also that the number of deaths from medical emergencies increased over the last decades in the country.…”

“…These analyses showed also that the number of deaths from medical emergencies increased over the last decades in the country. Particularly the increase of CVDs in urban Bangladesh has reached alarming levels [15,18,28,30]. Also deaths due to disasters such as building collapse, fire, gas explosion, occupational accidents are increasingly important [12,14,17,31].…”

“…(2.7%) respectively, and many of them occurred as medical emergency situations [1]. Stroke, ischaemic heart diseases and RTIs were the three reported top reasons for deaths and disabilities in Bangladesh [1,[12][13][14][15]. The mortality rate due to Stroke, ischaemic heart diseases and RTIs were 82.3, 66.6 and 15.3 respectively per 100,000 populations, and these were causing additionally 1792.5, 1563.9 and 1062.9 disabilityadjusted life years (DALYs) respectively per 100,000 population in Bangladesh in 2019 [1].…”