Pattern of diseases of police personnel attending outdoor department of divisional police hospital, Rajshahi

The objective of the present study was to assess the pattern of disease of police personnel attending outdoor department at ‘Divisional Police Hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh’. A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out. The study was conducted in outdoor department at Divisional Police Hospital, Rajshahi from May’12 to December 2012.All police personnel who are attending outdoor department at Divisional Police Hospital, Rajshahi constituted the study population for the present study. A total of 405 samples were collected. Asemi-structured questionnaire which includes both close ended and open-ended question were filled up for each patient separately. SPSS version 17 was used to analyze the data. The study revealed 62.72%medicine patients, among them 9.88% respondents were patients of gastroenteritis, 4.44% had abdominal pain, 3.70% had hypertensive, 7.40% had diabetic and rest of them had other diseases. It was found that 1.97% respondents had Gynecological problem (Leucorrhoea) 8.89% had, skin & venereal disease problem, 3.95% had allergy,1.0% had ring guard, 2.47% had hair fall and 1.48% had dandruff. About l3.83% were Orthopedics patients, among them 5.18% were osteoarthritis, 4.44% were sciatica and 2.22% had rheumatic arthritis. About 2.23% had Eye problems, 1.23% had ENT problems, 6.17% had Cardiac problems and 2.96% had Dental problems. The study provides important information to the concerned authority to take proper measures against the prevailing diseases.