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Original Research Article

Year: 2019 | Month: October | Volume: 9 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 211-216

Retrospective Study on the Prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Punjab

Gurpreet Singh Bhatti¹, Ranbir Singh¹, Harpreet Kaur¹

¹Research Scholar, Department of Pharmacy Practice, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga-Ferozepur G.T. Road Moga, 142001, Punjab, India.

Corresponding Author: Ranbir Singh

ABSTRACT

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections at a tertiary care teaching hospital over the period of 5 years.
Methods: A retrospective chart review of the data collected from the clinical records of all STI positive patients, who had attended the skin OPD of Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, and Hospital, Faridkot, Punjab, for various complaints during the 5-year period from 2014 to 2019 was carried out. All male and female patients with confirmed STIs were included in the study and those patients without any evidence of STIs either clinically or serologically were excluded from the study.
Results: Out of the 2, 44,881 patient’s cases who had attended the Skin OPD, 3751 (1.531%) patients had STIs. Balanoposthitis accounted for the maximum number of the STIs with 929 cases (24.8%) were quite common in both sex followed by GUD Herpetic 485 (12.9%), Scabies 433 (11.5%), syphilis 365 (9.7%), GUD non Herpetic 304 (8.1%), Warts 303(8.1%), Urethral Discharge 270 (7.2%) and HIV+ 9 (0.2%).
Conclusion: The high prevalence of both the bacterial and the viral STI’s in the Punjab region of India. Health programmes should be still more focused on creating awareness about the minor STIs and to remove the stigma from the society so that the patients attend the proper healthcare facilities in the early stage itself for treatment thereby and as a result complications and further transmission of the STIs can be avoided.

Key words: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Balanoposthitis, human immunodeficiency virus, Prevalence, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Infection.

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