Paediatrica Indonesiana (Dec 2018)

The Spectrum of seven preventable Diseases at the Pediatric ward of Dr. Pirngadi Hospital Medan

  • T. Razif,
  • Yahya G. Lubis,
  • T. Murad El-Fuad,
  • Syahril Pasaribu,
  • Chairuddin P. Lubis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14238/pi33.3-4.1993.46-51
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33, no. 3-4
pp. 46 – 51

Abstract

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A retrospective study on seven preventab!e diseasee was done in 1989. We found 137 (7.1%) cases of all admissions; they were distribued into 12 neonatal tetanus (8.8%), 57 tetanus (4 1.6%), 17 measles (72.1%), 15 diphtheria (10.9%), 35 pulmonary tuberculosis (25.6%), and 7 poliomyelitis (0. 7%). There was no admittance of pertussis; 62% of those cases consisted of under five-year-old children. None of those patients had had measles immunization, and their mothers had not had tetanus toxoid immunization when they were pregnant. The mortality were as follows: neonatal tetanus 4 (33.3%), tetanus 3 (5.3%), measles 1 (5.9%), pulmonary tuberculosis 9 (25.7%) and diphtheria 7 (46.7%).

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