THE STUDY OF ANEMIA PREVALENCE IN PREGNANT WOMEN OF MULTAN

Objective: To determine anaemia prevalence in pregnant women of the Multan Design & duration: It is a descriptive type of cross-sectional study completed in 6 months. Setting: This study is held in the obstetrics and gynaecology department of Nishtar Hospital Multan and it is a type of multicentric study. Patients & methods: Women with pregnancy lived in the city of pakistan, multan, reporting to Nishtar Hospital Multan in an outpatient door. After the complete examination and complete history USG (ultrasonography) for fetus health done. Haemoglobin level of pregnant women in the study group was tested. The consecutive sampling of Non-probability technique was used. All the data was calculated on a proforma which was pre-designed proforma. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. standard deviation, means, frequency, and Percentage were calculated. The test of Chi-square was applied. Pregnant Women admitted in ICU or having comorbidities were not included in this study. Results: Total 850pregnant women cases were studied, from which 300 pregnant women (35.3%) were anaemic. 25% pregnant women were primigravida, 36.7% gravida-2 pregnant women, and 38.3% gravida≥3 pregnant women. 3. The women having Hb level below 7g/dl were 7%, between 7 to 8g/dl were 42%, 8.1 to 9g/dl were 34.7% pregnant women, and Hb level 9.1 to 10g/dl were 19.7% pregnant women. Conclusion: Anemia is more common condition in pregnant women of multan, especially in multigravida women. Moderate types of anaemia are much more common than milder and severe forms. Keywords: Anemia, Pregnant women, Primigravida, Multigravid