Abstract

CLINICAL PROFILE OF POISONING CASES IN SECONDARY REFERRAL HEALTHCARE SETTINGS OF ANDHRA PRADESH

Shaik Ashik Ali*, **K. Saisekhar, ***Manjunath and ****Veerendra

Abstract

In developing countries like India, the farmer’s dependency on agrochemicals increasing due to modernization of agriculture which may increase the availability, accessibility and prone to unsafe storage of toxic pesticides in rural households. As a result, self-poisoning with pesticides has Become a significant medium for self harm was estimated that, death by self poisoning, especially with pesticides, accounts for 30% of all suicides globally. The overall suicide rate was 71.4 per 1,00,000 populations with highest burden among men. India is estimated to have the highest snakebite mortality in the world. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates place the number of bites to be around 84,000 per annum with 11,000 deaths. The Knowledge on epidemiology of poisoning and its changes is important to both emergency physicians and public health practitioners, but the patters of poisoning varies from country to country, within the country and over time, sometimes rapidly. Therefore, regional epidemiological data on poisoning are very helpful in planning rational use of resources for the prevention and management of poisoning and in targeting research. Due to limited literature availability in Andhra Pradesh region we planned to perform a research study which assess the pattern of poisoning cases, trends in relation to the poisoning epidemiology and to identify population at risk in the rural settings of Andhra Pradesh.

Keywords: Poisoning, Hospitalization, Rural development trust.