Citation

Chowdhury AN, Banerjee S, Brahma A, Biswas MK. Indian J. Public Health 2008; 52(1): 40-42.

Affiliation

Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata. arabinda.chowdhury@btinternet.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Indian Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18700721

Abstract

A hospital - record based study was conducted in Sundarban of West Bengal to explore the profile of mortality and morbidity pattern of acute accidental poisoning among children. Sundarban is an underdeveloped coastal region of West Bengal. Three years retrospective (1999 - 2001) data of childhood accidental poisoning cases were collected from the indoor admission registers and case history sheets of 11 Block Primary Health Centers (BPHC) of the region. A total of 1056 children with accidental poisoning were admitted during those three years of which 58% were males. Mean age of males was slightly higher than females in all the three years. Organophosphorus pesticide poisoning was the commonest.

Language: en