Incidence of Hepatitis A, B and C with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status, and urban or rural area of Hazara division and district Sialkot

ABSTRACT

To study the incidence of Hepatitis A, B and C with relation to age, sex, occupation, socio economic status, medical and surgical treatment, blade used for shaving and urban or rural area of Hazara division and district Sialkot. Original study. This study was conducted at Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot from 1[st] January 2010 to 30[th] April 2013. 300 cases of Hepatitis A, B and C were randomly selected from the patients attending to OPD and emergency of Shaheena Jamil Teaching Hospital Abbotabad and Islam Teaching Hospital Sialkot and their peripheral districts. Results are shown in Table No. 1 to Table No. 9. The sanitary conditions of drinking water should be improve. The medical and paramedical staff should take care against syringe needle prick, surgical knife cut and blood transfusion. In barber shop during hair cutting and clean shave the blade should be new one and not reused. The sexual contact should be restricted to the life partner. The dental surgery is also one toll for Hepatitis spread. The aggravating factors such as occupation and socio economic status, medical and surgical treatment, blade used for shaving, surgical instruments, syringe, blood transfusion dentistry instruments should be free of infection and sanitary conditions should be improved