Facility based retrospective infant death study in a tertiary care hospital of Tripura

Authors

  • Subrata Baidya Department of Community Medicine, Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India
  • Sanjib Debbarma Department of Pediatrics, Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India
  • Debosmita Paul Scientist C (Non-medical), Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India
  • Purvita Chowdhury Technical Assistant (Statistics), Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India
  • Biraj Kumar Kalita Technical Assistant (Statistics), Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India
  • Sanjoy Karmakar Technical Assistant-C, Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202979

Keywords:

Infant, Neonatal mortality, Tripura

Abstract

Background: Infant and neonatal mortality are important indicators of the overall physical health of a community. An increase is generally indicative of unmet human needs in healthcare, sanitation, nutrition and education. Objective: To estimate the different causes of death along with the geographic distribution of the reported death cases during the study period.

Methods: Analysis of the retrospective mortality data of infant and neonates in the Pediatric Department of Agartala Government Medical College and Hospital, from 2014-2018, was conducted.

Results: A total of 1525 infant deaths were recorded in the study facility, of which 878 (57.57%) were early-neonates, 120 (7.87%) late neonates and 527 (34.56%) post-neonatal infants. The most reported causes of neonatal mortality in Tripura were found to be preterm/low birth weight and perinatal asphyxia with OR of 1.45 (CI=1.137-1.857) and 1.41 (CI=1.10-1.81) respectively.

Conclusions: The increasing burden of preterm births and neonatal sepsis needs attention towards ante-natal care along with holistic healthcare services. The need for intensive actions from both administration and healthcare facility to promote identification of red-flags at primary level, followed by proper referral from the periphery to tertiary care facility has been reiterated in this study.

Author Biographies

Subrata Baidya, Department of Community Medicine, Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India

Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine

Sanjib Debbarma, Department of Pediatrics, Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India

Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Debosmita Paul, Scientist C (Non-medical), Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India

Scientist-C (Medical)

Purvita Chowdhury, Technical Assistant (Statistics), Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India

Scientist-C (Non-Medical)

Biraj Kumar Kalita, Technical Assistant (Statistics), Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India

Technical Assistant (Statistics)

Sanjoy Karmakar, Technical Assistant-C, Model Rural Health Research Unit, ICMR, Khumulwng, Tripura, India

Technical Assistant- C

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2020-06-26

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Baidya, S., Debbarma, S., Paul, D., Chowdhury, P., Kalita, B. K., & Karmakar, S. (2020). Facility based retrospective infant death study in a tertiary care hospital of Tripura. International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 7(7), 2574–2579. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202979

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