Medical Healthcare Facilities Research Articles

Improvement of Strategic Negotiation on Collective Labor Negotiation Process at PT. Layar Berkembang Indonesia

Collective Labor Agreement Negotiation process is a mandatory for employers and workers in Indonesia as stipulated under Labor Law No:13 Year 2003 and further regulated under Ministry of Manpower Regulation (PERMENAKER) No:28 Year 2014. Through this Collective Labor Agreement process, unions continue to fight for the intrinsic rights of worker’s welfare such as salary increase, better medical health facility, transport allowance, meal allowance, terms of employment, and safety policies, ways to balance work and family, and more. From the employers’ perfective, Collective Labor Agreement negotiation process is very crucial process as the ‘failed negotiation’ could lead to a strike and cessation of company production. The author conducted gap and data analysis by assessing the current process by referring to prevailing regulations. The author used SWOT analysis to identify the current weaknesses (internal factors) and un-structured negotiation strategy of PT. LAYAR BERKEMBANG Indonesia. External Analysis also being carried out by using PESTLE analysis to support the strategy improvement from different aspects and factors. To support the implementation of new Negotiation Framework, management of PT. LAYAR BERKEMBANG must take a series of actions and involve all leadership team in this improvement initiatives. HR Department must take lead in this process and align with other stakeholders for the implementation of this new framework so that the next Collective Labor Negotiation process is accountable and align with prevailing regulations in Indonesia.therefore author recommend this method compared to the current simple moving average method.

Base excess as a predictor of neonatal mortality in neonatal sepsis

Background: Neonatal sepsis is responsible for approximately 15% of all neonatal deaths in the world. Despite of availability in advanced medical healthcare facilities for mother and neonates, incidence of mortality secondary to sepsis especially in developing countries like India is more common. Metabolic acidosis is the most common form of acid base imbalance in neonatal sepsis which can be analyzed with increased levels of base excess. Hence early diagnosis of neonatal sepsis can be done by determining base excess. Methods: This is a prospective observational study conducted in NICU at Cheluvamba Hospital, Mysore. 73 term neonates with suspected sepsis were enrolled in the study who were on regular follow-up and treatment till death/discharged from NICU. Base excess value is obtained from the arterial blood gas analysis from each subject and it was compared with survivor and non-survivor group along with other study parameter Results: Out of 73 subjects, incidence of non survivors group with severe increase in base excess is 75%. To predict the mortality, we compared it with standard base excess which showed the prediction of more than 60%, with significant AOC (0.827) of very near to one in ROC curve, with statistically significant (p<0.001) sensitivity of 92.59%, specificity of 63.04%, positive predictive value of 59.5%, negative predictive value of 93.5%. Conclusions: In present study we have proved that base excess is an important parameter for the early diagnosis and for early intervention in neonatal sepsis.

Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Relation to Metformin Use in Adults with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus

Objective: To find the correlation between serum vitamin B12 levels in metformin users among type-2 diabetics.Study Design: Cross-sectional Study.Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out at the Department of Medicine of Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan from April 2021 to September 2021.Materials and Methods: Using a consecutive sampling technique, patients were selected from both outdoor and indoor medical health facility Blood tests were performed on all patients and serum vitamin B12 level was assessed, a level less than 200 pg/ml was considered deficient. The comparison was made among patients taking metformin and those not on metformin.Results: 148 patients were enrolled, consisting of an equal proportion of cases and controls i.e. 74 patients in each group, with a mean age of 44.09± 10.61 and 46.15± 10.64 respectively. Vitamin B12 deficiency was found more in metformin user group 34 (45.94%) than in patients not on metformin 11 (14.86%) (p<0.001). The odd ratio was 4.87 (95% CI is 2.22 – 10.69).Conclusion: Metformin users taking at least 1000mg daily of minimum one-year duration experienced significant reductions in blood vitamin B12 levels as compared to patients not using metformin. A serum vitamin B12 test needs to be performed on regular basis after every three months in type-2 diabetic patients taking metformin of more than 1 gram daily for more than a year.

Healthcare-seeking behavior for respiratory illnesses in Kenya: implications for burden of disease estimation

BackgroundUnderstanding healthcare-seeking patterns for respiratory illness can help improve estimation of disease burden and target public health interventions to control acute respiratory disease in Kenya.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey to determine healthcare utilization patterns for acute respiratory illness (ARI) and severe pneumonia in four diverse counties representing urban, peri-urban, rural mixed farmers, and rural pastoralist communities in Kenya using a two-stage (sub-locations then households) cluster sampling procedure. Healthcare seeking behavior for ARI episodes in the last 14 days, and severe pneumonia in the last 12 months was evaluated. Severe pneumonia was defined as reported cough and difficulty breathing for > 2 days and report of hospitalization or recommendation for hospitalization, or a danger sign (unable to breastfeed/drink, vomiting everything, convulsions, unconscious) for children < 5 years, or report of inability to perform routine chores.ResultsFrom August through September 2018, we interviewed 28,072 individuals from 5,407 households. Of those surveyed, 9.2% (95% Confidence Interval [CI] 7.9–10.7) reported an episode of ARI, and 4.2% (95% CI 3.8–4.6) reported an episode of severe pneumonia. Of the reported ARI cases, 40.0% (95% CI 36.8–43.3) sought care at a health facility. Of the74.2% (95% CI 70.2–77.9) who reported severe pneumonia and visited a medical health facility, 28.9% (95% CI 25.6–32.6) were hospitalized and 7.0% (95% CI 5.4–9.1) were referred by a clinician to the hospital but not hospitalized. 21% (95% CI 18.2–23.6) of self-reported severe pneumonias were hospitalized. Children aged < 5 years and persons in households with a higher socio-economic status were more likely to seek care for respiratory illness at a health facility.ConclusionOur findings suggest that hospital-based surveillance captures less than one quarter of severe pneumonia in the community. Multipliers from community household surveys can account for underutilization of healthcare resources and under-ascertainment of severe pneumonia at hospitals.

COVID-19: The Ethno-Geographic Perspective of Differential Immunity.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the agent behind the worst global pandemic of the 21st century (COVID-19), is primarily a respiratory-disease-causing virus called SARS-CoV-2 that is responsible for millions of new cases (incidence) and deaths (mortalities) worldwide. Many factors have played a role in the differential morbidity and mortality experienced by nations and ethnicities against SARS-CoV-2, such as the quality of primary medical health facilities or enabling economies. At the same time, the most important variable, i.e., the subsequent ability of individuals to be immunologically sensitive or resistant to the infection, has not been properly discussed before. Despite having excellent medical facilities, an astounding issue arose when some developed countries experienced higher morbidity and mortality compared with their relatively underdeveloped counterparts. Hence, this investigative review attempts to analyze the issue from an angle of previously undiscussed genetic, epigenetic, and molecular immune resistance mechanisms in correlation with the pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 and varied ethnicity-based immunological responses against it. The biological factors discussed here include the overall landscape of human microbiota, endogenous retroviral genes spliced into the human genome, and copy number variation, and how they could modulate the innate and adaptive immune systems that put a certain ethnic genetic architecture at a higher risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection than others. Considering an array of these factors in their entirety may help explain the geographic disparity of disease incidence, severity, and subsequent mortality associated with the disease while at the same time encouraging scientists to design new experimental approaches to investigation.

Drug dependence analysis in young adults living in Moscow and across Russia for the years 2010-2020

Relevance. A statistical study of drug addiction among young people for 2010-2020 is needed in order to develop recommendations for the treatment of drug addiction. The aim of the research was to analyze trends of substances dependence disorder among adolescents. Materials and Methods. The present research is based on the national statistics data collected and presented in Federal Statistical Monitoring Form № 11 ‘Data on substances dependence disorder cases’; Federal Statistical Monitoring Form № 37 ‘Data on drug and toxic substances (inhalant) addicted adults’, which include estimates about adolescents aged 15-17 who seek addiction treatment initiation at public medical health facilities across Russia and in Moscow. The monitoring period is from 2010 to 2020. All substances dependence disorder morbidity rates were analyzed according to ICD-10 and presented as a breakdown of: drug addiction (dependence) syndrome and health detrimental abuse, first admissions; diagnostic groups, and medical conditions - mental disorders and deviant behaviors caused by drug and non-narcotic psychoactive substances abuse. The data were collected, compiled and Microsoft Office Excel 2016-processed to underlie a database. Results and Discussion. Alcohol and psychoactive substances abuse disorders showed the downward trend, both across Russia and Moscow. Drug abuse disorders showed the decline across Russia, while Moscow saw the same rates growing. Conclusion. The set of the government-backed programs adopted across Russia and in Moscow to fight the spread of adolescent substances dependence disorders delivered a positive result.

Influence of digital health on public health protection against the COVID-19 panademic in Algeria

Covid-19, many challenges were faced by the people. Lacking of medical health facilities were top listed among these challenges. As a result of these issues, the medical system is paying more attention to digital Health. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of digital health on public health protection against the COVID-19 pandemic via public health awareness and public health behavioural changes as mediating factors in Algeria. Population of the study was comprised of Algerian doctors and nurses. Five hundred and twenty two (522) respondents were selected as sample by using available sampling technique. For the collection of data a self-made questionnaire was developed and used for the collection of data. The collected data were analysed by using PLS-Smart program. Based on analysis, the researcher concluded that adoption of digital health can have a positive impact on public health behavioural changes and COVID-19 protection.

Stigmatization and Social Support of Pregnant Women With HIV or Syphilis in Eastern China: A Mixed-Method Study.

BackgroundStigmatization and poor social support are challenges faced by individuals living with HIV or sexually transmitted disease, which can have a profound negative impact on their healthcare. Mother-to-child transmission of either HIV or syphilis can lead to adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate stigmatization and social support of pregnant women with HIV or syphilis in eastern China.MethodsThis was an explanatory sequential mixed-method study conducted in Zhejiang province, China in 2019. Stigmatization, social support, and the associated factors toward HIV or syphilis were evaluated using questionnaires. The social support rating scale was used to evaluate social support, where a score <25% was defined as poor social support. A logistic regression model was used to explore the association between stigmatization and poor social support.ResultsA total of 448 women (HIV positive, N = 93; syphilis, N = 355) were recruited in this study. Higher stigmatization was observed in pregnant women with HIV compared to those with syphilis (53.76% vs. 24.36%, p < 0.001), and poorer social support was observed in women with HIV compared with those with syphilis (40.86% vs. 19.86%, p < 0.001), with significant distributions of the total social support scores (Z = −1.976, p = 0.048) and scores on objectivity (Z = −2.036, p = 0.042) and subjectivity (Z = −2.500, p = 0.012). Similar social support among HIV or syphilis pregnant women was observed in medical healthcare facilities. In multivariable logistic model analysis, stigmatization (ORadj = 2.927; 95%CI, 1.714–4.996; p < 0.001) and ethnic minority (ORadj = 2.373; 95%CI, 1.113–5.056; p = 0.025) were negatively associated with social support. Interestingly, employment status was associated with improved social support (ORadj = 0.345; 95%CI, 0.180–0.662; p = 0.001).ConclusionStigmatization among pregnant women with HIV or syphilis remains high. We demonstrated that stigmatization was a significant predictor of low social support in pregnant women with HIV or syphilis. The support shown in medical facilities was similar toward pregnant women with HIV or syphilis. Implementation of stigmatization eradication and social support strategies targeting pregnant women with HIV or syphilis may therefore improve the dual elimination of mother-to-child transmission service.

The Mental Health of Medical Frontliners during the COVID 19 Pandemic

In this time of the pandemic where major outbreaks are experienced, health care workers around the globe have been very much exhausted in addressing the needs of those who are infected with COVID-19. Many of which have affected not just their physical state but as well as their mental condition. This exhaustion does not exempt anyone; thus it is very much important to include mental health in combating COVID-19. This study aims to assess the mental health of workers in a medical health facility in Iligan City catering, accepting, and engaging with services in dealing with COVID-19 patients. It aims to assess and determine the levels of anxiety, burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction and to determine the relationship among these variables. The respondents of this study are registered nurses from the Iligan Medical Center Hospital located at San Miguel Village, Pala-o, Iligan City. Findings reveal that nurses have severe levels of anxiety and average for burnout, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction. Most variables do have a relationship except for compassion satisfaction and anxiety. The findings highlight the importance of addressing the mental health of the nurses working in IMCH whilst combating COVID-19. Therefore, the management should develop programs, seminars, and relevant policies in addressing mental health in the hospital. With these findings, one of the recommendations is to conduct activities and programs in ensuring that nurses are mentally healthy to continue their services to patients who are infected with COVID-19. Further recommendations are discussed in this research paper.

An ensemble random forest algorithm for privacy preserving distributed medical data mining

As the voluminous amount of data is generated because of inexorably widespread proliferation of electronic data maintained using the Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Medical health facilities have great potential to discern the patterns from this data and utilize them in diagnosing a specific disease or predicting outbreak of an epidemic etc. This discern of patterns might reveal sensitive information about individuals and this information is vulnerable to misuse. This is, however, a challenging task to share such sensitive data as it compromises the privacy of patients. In this paper, a random forest-based distributed data mining approach is proposed. Performance of the proposed model is evaluated using accuracy, f-measure and appa statistics analysis. Experimental results reveal that the proposed model is efficient and scalable enough in both performance and accuracy within the imbalanced data and also in maintaining the privacy by sharing only useful healthcare knowledge in the form of local models without revealing and sharing of sensitive data.

The application of healing architecture and green architecture in hospital for children

Healing Architecture Approach which is generally interpreted as healing which is done through architectural elements. In its application, Healing Architecture is generally associated with giving aspects of colour and nature into buildings, considering these two aspects are proven to be able to help the patient’s recovery rate. But by definition, the application of Healing Architecture does not always have to be realized in the form of the two aspects above. The purpose of the research is providing medical health facilities for children and special services for children’s character with a healing architecture approach and based on the green building concept. The study process used in designing the Children’s Hospital with the Healing Architecture Approach and the Application of the Green Building Concept is carried out by a research method that is quantitative-correlative analysis, which is to find and determine the correlation between the research variables. In a design object, a new approach is applied in the Healing Architecture principle. This approach is applied in the design of objects by presenting a healing feel of the architecture of the building itself in hospital activities. The Healing Architecture approach is supported by the green concept, which includes the entire building.

An Ensemble Random Forest Algorithm for Privacy Preserving Distributed Medical Data Mining

As the voluminous amount of data is generated because of inexorably widespread proliferation of electronic data maintained using the Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Medical health facilities have great potential to discern the patterns from this data and utilize them in diagnosing a specific disease or predicting outbreak of an epidemic etc. This discern of patterns might reveal sensitive information about individuals and this information is vulnerable to misuse. This is, however, a challenging task to share such sensitive data as it compromises the privacy of patients. In this paper, a random forest-based distributed data mining approach is proposed. Performance of the proposed model is evaluated using accuracy, f-measure and appa statistics analysis. Experimental results reveal that the proposed model is efficient and scalable enough in both performance and accuracy within the imbalanced data and also in maintaining the privacy by sharing only useful healthcare knowledge in the form of local models without revealing and sharing of sensitive data.

Validation of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale among pregnant women in Capricorn District, South Africa

ABSTRACT Background:The Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS) was developed to measure pregnancy-specific psychological distress among pregnant women. Method:The present study evaluated the psychometric properties of the TPDS in a South African location. Analysis was conducted using data obtained from a sample of 205 participants (average age = 27.69 years [SD = 5.977], average gestation weeks = 25.37 weeks [SD = 8.448]; domicile = 63% rural) attending their antenatal check-ups at various medical health facilities in the Capricorn District, Limpopo Province. The analysis involved structural and convergent validation. Results:Fit indices showed that the three-factor, second-order solution fitted the data better. The reliability estimates of the main TPDS factors, partner involvement (PI) and negative affect (NA), were good, and were obviously not influenced by gravidity. The associations of the TPDS factors with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4) Depression and Anxiety, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and the Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Scale (PRAS) were not generally good. Conclusion:The results suggest that in spite of the TPDS having potential to be used in South Africa, further validation studies are required.

Deep-LSTM ensemble framework to forecast Covid-19: an insight to the global pandemic.

The pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading all over the world. Medical health care systems are in urgent need to diagnose this pandemic with the support of new emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and Big Data System. In this dichotomy study, we divide our research in two ways—firstly, the review of literature is carried out on databases of Elsevier, Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed and Wiley Online using keywords Coronavirus, Covid-19, artificial intelligence on Covid-19, Coronavirus 2019 and collected the latest information about Covid-19. Possible applications are identified from the same to enhance the future research. We have found various databases, websites and dashboards working on real time extraction of Covid-19 data. This will be conducive for future research to easily locate the available information. Secondly, we designed a nested ensemble model using deep learning methods based on long short term memory (LSTM). Proposed Deep-LSTM ensemble model is evaluated on intensive care Covid-19 confirmed and death cases of India with different classification metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, f-measure and mean absolute percentage error. Medical healthcare facilities are boosted with the intervention of AI as it can mimic human intelligence. Contactless treatment is possible only with the help of AI assisted automated health care systems. Furthermore, remote location self treatment is one of the key benefits provided by AI based systems.

UNSAFE ABORTIONS AND THEIR COMPLICATIONS: RECENT EXPERIENCES IN A RURAL TERTIARY CARE FACILITY

Introduction The number of abortions when classified into facility based , medical abortions outside facilities and other type of abortions constituted a medium of 3375252, 14837497 and 807251 cases respectively, when adjusted for various parameters for India. The present study was conducted to include abortions outside medical facilities including methods of abortion, clinical complaints, complications and their management. Material and methods The hospital records for patients who underwent abortions were accessed for a four year period from 2016-2020. The number of patients undergoing supervised abortions and patients presenting with incomplete abortions or related complications were recorded. The presenting complaints for spontaneous abortions and abortions done outside medical health facility along with the therapeutic interventions for such unsafe abortions including complications were assessed. Results The total numbers of abortions were 4316, out of which hospital supervised termination of pregnancies constituted 59.8% where as abortions or related complications outside a medical facility were 40.2 %. The modes of abortion, presenting features and complications of abortions performed outside medical facilities (total number=1824) and the treatment were recorded. Out of these patients with spontaneous abortions were 36.8% whereas those presenting with complications constituted 63.2%. The commonest method for such abortions was use of abortions pills but other abortifacients and crude instrumentation were also recorded. The commonest clinical feature was discharge per vagina, with retained products of conception causing most complications. The main therapeutic procedure done was dilatation and curettage. Conclusion The rural population needs a robust health facility for abortion related care. The sale of abortion pills needs to be tightly regulated . Similarly, crude instrumentation which is a significant cause of morbidity, in unsupervised abortions can be eliminated by awareness and strengthening the health care system making it more approachable for women in rural population.

Fire Ant Venom Alkaloids Inhibit Biofilm Formation

Biofilm formation on exposed surfaces is a serious issue for the food industry and medical health facilities. There are many proposed strategies to delay, reduce, or even eliminate biofilm formation on surfaces. The present study focuses on the applicability of fire ant venom alkaloids (aka ‘solenopsins’, from Solenopsis invicta) tested on polystyrene and stainless steel surfaces relative to the adhesion and biofilm-formation by the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. Conditioning with solenopsins demonstrates significant reduction of bacterial adhesion. Inhibition rates were 62.7% on polystyrene and 59.0% on stainless steel surfaces. In addition, solenopsins drastically reduced cell populations already growing on conditioned surfaces. Contrary to assumptions by previous authors, solenopsins tested negative for amphipathic properties, thus understanding the mechanisms behind the observed effects still relies on further investigation.

SOCIALIZATION OF SELF CARE TOGA AND ACUPRESSURE AT GADING HEALTH CENTER IN SURABAYA

Background: The community made various efforts to be able to overcome the health complaints that they experienced, whether it was done alone by people who experienced health complaints or by healthy families. Efforts made by the community in overcoming health complaints suffered include self-treatment based on the knowledge they have by massage or consuming materials or processed from plants or animals, conducting consultations or examinations on traditional and medical health facilities, and can also bring in officers home health. Purpose: Increasing public knowledge regarding how to process traditional medicines and independent acupressure. Method: Providing knowledge to the Independent Care Cadres of Gading Surabaya Health Center regarding how to process traditional medicines and independent acupressure through demonstration of making traditional medicines and independent acupressure. Results: The activity of Independent Care of Family Medication and Acupressure Care for Cadre groups in Gading Surabaya Health Center went well. The cadre welcomed the program and they participated in the coaching activities actively. Conclusion: The Independent Care of Family Medication and Acupressure care for Cadre groups coaching program in Gading Surabaya Health Center is very beneficial for the community in overcoming minor ailments without taking chemical drugs.

Students' Satisfaction of the Quality of Educational Services and Support of Medical Science Universities Sports Camps in Iran

Background: Evaluating the quality of educational services and the support offered by universities to prepare sport teams, as well as identifying factors affecting the satisfaction of students, play very important role in improving the future performance of universities to enhance the joyful participation of students in sports activities at universities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of university students with educational services and support of sports camps in the eleventh Male Students Sports Olympiad of the Universities of Medical Sciences in 2012.Materials and Methods: In this survey research, 330 of 2400 male students who participated in the competitions were randomly selected by Morgan table. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire, including demographic information as well as 34 items and 2 open questions with five-point Likert scale (very good, good, moderate or fair, poor, very poor). The validity and reliability of the questionnaire (0.90) were confirmed by the university experts. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics by SPSS 20.Results: The results of this study revealed that students’ overall satisfaction was at moderate level (3.11±0.79). Students were most satisfied with transportation (3.40 ± 0.93) and least satisfied with medical-health facilities (2.80 ± 1.09) and cultural activities (2.81±0.90).Conclusion: According to the point that satisfaction of students with sports camps was at moderate level, it is essential to pay more attention to the components with which students were least satisfied to improve the quality of services provided by universities.

Harm reduction-a systematic review on effects of alcohol reduction on physical and mental symptoms.

Based on the knowledge that alcohol misuse causes a multitude of diseases and increased mortality, this systematic review examines whether a reduction of the individual alcohol consumption can contribute to a minimization of health risks within a harm reduction approach. In fact, the reviewed 63 studies indicate that interventions aiming at alcohol reduction (including total abstinence as one possible therapeutic aim) indeed resulted in or were associated with positive effects in harmful, hazardous or alcohol-dependent drinkers. Major benefits were observed for reducing alcohol-associated injuries, recovery of ventricular heart function in alcoholic cardiomyopathy, blood pressure lowering, normalization of biochemical parameter, body weight reduction, histological improvement in pre-cirrhotic alcohol-related liver disease and slowed progression of an already existing alcohol-attributable liver fibrosis. Furthermore, reduced withdrawal symptoms, prevalence of psychiatric episodes and duration of in-patient hospital days, improvement of anxiety and depression symptoms, self-confidence, physical and mental quality of life, fewer alcohol-related adverse consequences as well as lower psychosocial stress levels and better social functioning can result from reduced alcohol intake. The reviewed literature demonstrated remarkable socioeconomic cost benefits in areas such as the medical health-care system or workforce productivity. Individuals with heightened vulnerability further benefit significantly from alcohol reduction (e.g. hypertension, hepatitis C, psychiatric co-morbidities, pregnancy, but also among adolescents and young adults). Concluding, the reviewed studies strongly support and emphasize the importance and benefits of early initial screening for problematic alcohol use followed by brief and other interventions in first contact medical health-care facilities to reduce alcohol intake.

Prevalence of Hemolytic Anemia and Hemoglobinopathies among the Pregnant Women Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Central India

Anemia in pregnancy is one of the causes of maternal morbidity and, maternal and fetal mortality in India. Hemoglobin transports oxygen to different parts of the body. Any defect in hemoglobin structure leads to its adverse functions. Screening of pregnant women for hemoglobinopahties helps in early intervention for reducing morbidity and mortality. Although the prevalence of hemoglobinopathies especially of the sickle cell disorders is high in Madhya Pradesh but any study on pregnant women is lacking. This study had set the objectives to find the prevalence of anemia and hemoglobin disorders in pregnant women, and to determine the health status through hematological indices profile in central India. Hospital based a cross-sectional study showed 12.26% prevalence of hemoglobinopathies among 416 pregnant women, the sickle cell trait being 7.45%, followed by β-thalassemia trait (2.89%), hemoglobin E trait (0.24%), and sickle cell disease (1.68%). About 88% of the pregnant women were found free of hemoglobinopathies. Of the 9.13% pregnant women included in the study were suffering from sickle cell disorders. However, the overall 47.11% anemia was observed in pregnant women, ranging in between 45% to 66% and seemed to show a reduction in anemia after nutritional supplementations and improvement in maternal health care at antenatal check up due to accessibility to medical health facilities. A comparison of hematological indices of pregnant women afflicted with and without sickle cell disorders have revealed much reduced hemoglobin level, red blood cells count, mean corpuscular volume, hematocrit, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin; and raised leucocytosis in sickle cell disorder cases than among the normal pregnant women. A more vigorous and realistic campaign of prophylactic regime of supplementations for these pregnant women and child health care is suggested.