COMPARISON OF FREQUENCY AND PERCENTAGE: TYPHOID AND NON-TYPHOID FEVER PATIENTS PRESENTING TO THE GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR HOSPITALS OF HYDERABAD.

Typhoid or entaric fever is very old infectious disease of oral fecal route that occurs following use of food and water contaminated by Salmonella Typhi. The level of care provided by govt hospitals and private hospitals have wide difference along with the cost of treatment so the affording people prefer private hospitals while poor non-affording patients select government facilities for their treatment. For this purpose a 3 month study was arranged and we compared 285 patients of fever, collected from public 76(26.67%) and 209(73.33%) private hospitals during 2012 by non-probability sampling .Data analysis was accomplished on SPSS version22. There were 42.80% (122) females and 57.20%) were males, 28.95%(22) of the govt. hospitals and 52.15% (109) of the private hospital patients were suffering from typhoid fever .Non-typhoid fever patients were71.05% (54) in government hospital and 47.85% (100) in private hospital ,the difference was significant p-0.0005. Conclusion:Government, Private, treatment, enteric feve