Prevalence of anaemia in Tour Sheher Zarghoon, Balochistan

Instead of communicable diseases, developing countries are now seeing serious increase in non-communicable disease and Anemia is one of major problems in developing countries like Pakistan especially in under developed areas like e.g Balochistan. Anaemia is prevalent in certain area of this continent. Anaemia is little bit prevalent in the Urban area of the Balochistan but rural and high altitude areas are still desire its due attention. The people affected belong to rural areas with low socio-economic status and are unable to afford the even economical iron therapy diagnosis, treatment. In some cases bone marrow aspirates and immunodiagnostic facilities are needed for diagnostic purpose. Results showed that prevalence of anemia was high in less than fifteen years of age group, females suffered more with anemia as compared to males in the area

Prevalence of anaemia in Feroza district Khuzdar, Balochistan

Instead of communicable diseases, developing countries are now seeing serious increase in non-communicable disease and Anemia is one of major problems in developing countries like Pakistan especially in under developed areas like e.g Balochistan. Anaemia is prevalent in certain area of this continent. Anaemia is little bit prevalent in the Urban area of the Balochistan but rural and high altitude areas are still desire its due attention. The people affected belong to rural areas with low 50cm-economic status and are unable to afford the even economical iron therapy diagnosis, treatment. In some cases bone marrow aspitates and immunodiagnostic facilities are needed for diagnostic purpose. Results showed that prevalence of anemia was high in more than fifteen years of age group, females suffered more with anemia as compared to males in the area

False hepatitis-B antigenaemia

Prevalence of Hepatitis B is very significant in Balochistan. A large number of false positive reports are given by laboratories most of which use the Latex technique. A comparative study was done to evaluate the results of latex and ELISA for hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] in the sera of patients suffering from liver disease. The patients presenting with hepatobiliary disease were selected. The sera were screened for HBsAg by latex technique using the commercially available kits. Positive sera were repeated for HBsAg on Lab system ELISA technique. The non-reactive samples were re-checked by the Sanofi ELISA kit and negativity in both the ELISA kits were taken as 'false positive' on latex. Out of 1160 sero-positive by latex, 980 were confirmed to be positive and 180 negative by ELISA. 15.5% falsepositive results were obtained with latex. These results substantiate this variation of the ELISA assay as a reliable alternative for routine confirmation of I-iBsAg tests