European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

PREVALENCE OF PNEUMONIA IN SOUTH DARFUR STATE- SUDAN DATA COMPARED FROM 2009 THROUGH 2013.

Mohammed Elmujtba Adem Essa*, Abdelkareem A. Ahmed and Sherihan Mohammed Elkundi Osman

ABSTRACT

This is a Descriptive analysis approach study, aims to underline pneumonia disease in south Darfur community, Sudan, to inform policy-makers about fact status to put preventive plan and interventions against pneumonia, including vaccination. The DATA was collected by FMOH of south Darfur state from January 2009 through December 2013, total number of reported cases are (21961 case), included both the Inpatient and the outpatient cases, however mortality case excluded in the outpatient report due to some difficulties in collecting the data. In Which are only reported in the Inpatient and they are 201 case, the data shows the inpatient incidence represent less than one third of the total incidence of pneumonia disease during this years specifically 27.1%, where the outpatient take the other two third 72.1% prevalence, the female represent more than half and the age group below 25 year has the commons incidence.

Keywords: pneumonia, infected, mortality, incident, outpatient, inpatient, male, female.