An Epidemiological Study of Snake Bite Cases Attending at Mortuary in Tertiary District Level Medical College Majumdar Sukanta1, Biswas Achintya2,*, Chowdhuri Soumeek3 1Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata 2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata 3Tutor, Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata *Corresponding Author: Achintya Biswas MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic and State Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata
Online published on 27 November, 2019. Abstract Snake bite is a serious but neglected global problem specially in Southeast Asian countries, public health problem and one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in rural areas. Objective-To find out socio demographic profile snakebite cases and pattern of snake bites. Materials and Method-The observational cross sectional study was conducted at mortuary of Burdwan medical college. Results-The present study finding was majority of victims were Male (55%), age group of 15-60yrs, rural, Hindu, General Caste, having primary education level, agricultural worker. Most of the incident happened in rainy season (43%, statistically significant F-9.384, p-0.005) and from 6pm to 12 midnight (47.5%, statistically significant Chisq-40.67, df-3, p<.001). In majority of cases were Viper bite (47%, statically significant chi sq-45.867, df-3, p-<0.001) and in the inflicted at foot(54.2%, chi square-72.2, df-2, p-<0.001) Top Keywords Snake bite, epidemiology, mortuary, tertiary district medical college. Top |