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TITLE:

A RESEARCH STUDY TO ASSESS THE PATIENT’S EXPENDITURE SUFFERING FROM DENGUE FEVER WITH RESPECT TO COUNTRY’S LOSS AND PATIENT’S CURE

AUTHORS:

Dr. Farva Jamil, Dr. Aroosha Asif, Dr. Fatima Farooq

ABSTRACT:

Objective: The purpose of the study was to calculate the expenditure of individual patients suffering from dengue fever to treat themselves. And what is the loss of the country as a combined on the cure of these patients. Methods: This research was carried out at Allied Hospital, Faisalabad from July 2017 to May 2018. They collected the data, living areas and cell numbers of the patients. Fifty patients associated with dengue fever were collected. In this way, 250 patients were chosen by random selection. Direct cost was gathered by getting the knowledge of the duration of dengue fever in different patients and its costs which were out of the range of the patients. On the other hand, the indirect cost was measured by a disability accustomed lifetime by using Murray’s principle. Results: There were a total of 162 males added in the study. In these males, the average age was about (30.4 ± 13.5) years. About 50% of males were observed having the age of fewer than 30 years. Their social status was also recorded. 145 patients belong to the lower class, 70 belong to the average class and 35 were related to standard class. There were also two types of patients having dengue fever. In this study out of a total of 150 patients, 32 were suffering from dengue hemorrhagic fever and 8 belongs to dengue short syndrome. The duration of dengue fever in a patient was about (32 ± 7.1) days. It was estimated that there is a loss of about 35,823 rupees on each patient. While before the admittance of patient into the hospital, costs during their stay in hospital and costs after hospitalization were 6154, 21,242 and 8,427 correspondingly. There was an almost 133.76 disability calculated life years per millions of persons. Conclusion: Government took an important step in this respect. Free of cost treatment was provided to the patients by the government. Still, there are 21,242 rupees lost on every patient by the patient themselves during their residence in the hospital. It caused a load on them. Keywords: Dengue, Economic Burden, Contagion and Hemorrhagic.

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