Abstract
Background: Malaria remains the most important disease responsible for causing great suffering and loss of life in the world. The rationale behind the present study was to determine the proportion of Malaria and compare the record data.
 Objectives: To determine the prevalence of Malaria and to compare the prevalence sex wise, age wise and to investigate which species is prevalent in Raigarh.
 Material & Methods: Retrospective record-based study was done were the data from January 2009 to December 2018 was gathered and analyzed. Prevalence was calculated and Epi-info (7.0) software was used.
 Results: 79218 blood smears prepared in 10 years in which 2911 smear were positive which indicates around 3.67% cases were positive. The Prevalence rate is falling with increasing years which indicates the importance of Malaria eradication programme. Positive cases were found to be highest under 10 years (46.58%). Male preponderance and Plasmodium falciparum is the most common species.
 Conclusion: Health education through IEC (Information, Education and Communication) activities and behavioural change communication (BCC) are very important intervention measures aimed at improvement of environmental sanitation and personal protection from mosquito bites for the elimination of malaria in the endemic areas as well as in the whole country.
 Keywords: Malaria, prevalence, plasmodium falciparum
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Materials & MethodsMalaria remains the most important disease responsible for causing great suffering and loss of life in the world
As per table 4 we further classified according to species and we found only two species were plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax
Discussion and ConclusionThe epidemiology of malaria is the product of complex interaction between host vector and parasite factor that are specific to each location in which malaria occurs.[5]
Summary
MD, Pathology, Assistant Professor in Pathology, Govt. MBBS, DNB, Pathology, Assistant Professor in Pathology, Govt. Medical College, (LSLAMMC), Raigarh, MD, Pathology, Prof & HOD, Dept of Pathology, Govt. Medical College, (LSLAMMC), Raigarh, MD (Pathology), Assistant Professor in Pathology, Govt. Medical College, (LSLAMMC), Raigarh, Article Info: Received 10 February 2019; Accepted 12 March. MALARIA AT RAIGARH DISTRICT, CHHATTISGARH- AN OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS. International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies, 3(3). Address for Correspondence: Dr Reena Naik, Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology, Govt. Conflict of interest: No conflict of interest
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