At the end of first quarter in 2023, Severe Sepsis and Pneumonia were first and second in the top ten causes of mortality at the Asamankese Government Hospital of the Eastern Region.
Figures from January to June 2023 indicated that severe Sepsis claimed 11 lives to take first position in the top ten causes of mortality list, moving from 4th position in 2022 with 7 deaths.
Severe sepsis occurs when one or more of your body’s organs is damaged from this inflammatory response and it is associated with organ dysfunction, hypoperfusion, or hypotension.
Pneumonia, which is inflammation and fluid in the lungs caused by a bacterial, viral or fungal infection and makes it difficult to breathe also killed ten people at within the period.
In 2021 and 2022, Pneumonia was in first position in the top ten causes of mortality and killed 18 and 14 people respectively.
Report from the Hospital shows that total mortality rate for the first quarter was 57 and other causes were Accute Respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, Toxoplasmosis and celebrovascular disease.
Others are congestive heart failure, stroke, septic shock, chronic liver disease and other diseases also claimed 13 lives.
Out of the mortality rate, people from 70 years and above were 25, representing 43.9%, whiles people from 20 to 34, 35 to 39, 40 to 59 and 60 to 69 were eight each.
Source:Mybrytfmonline/Mensah Atakora
