Table 2.

Reasons for admission of patients to the medical wards of JUSH, South west Ethiopia, 2008

ICD category*	Reasons for admission		Number	Percent
A or B	Certain infectious and parasitic diseases		100	16.4
		Malaria	52	8.5
		Tuberculosis	33	5.4
		Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease	4	0.7
		Relapsing fever	3	0.5
		Others†	8	1.3
C	Malignant Neoplasms		4	0.7
D	Anemia		31	5.1
E	Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease		11	1.8
		Diabetes Mellitus	7	1.2
		Others‡	4	0.7
G	Diseases of the Nervous system		88	14.4
		Pyogenic and chronic Meningitis	80	13.1
		Polyneuropathies	6	1.0
		Others§	2	0.4
I	Diseases of the circulatory system		78	12.8
		Cerebrovascular diseases	20	3.3
		Valvular heart diseases and cardiomyopathies	18	3.0
		Hypertensive diseases	13	2.1
		Ischaemic heart diseases	11	1.8
		Corpulmonale	10	1.6
		Others‖	6	1.1
J	Diseases of the respiratory system		164	26.9
		Severe community Acquired Pneumonia	139	22.8
		Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia	9	1.5
		Chronic lower respiratory diseases	9	1.5
		Acute upper respiratory infections	4	0.7
		Others¶	3	0.6
K	Diseases of the Digestive system		56	9.2
		Chronic liver disease	22	3.6
		Peritonitis	21	3.4
		Acute gastroenteritis	9	1.5
		Others**	4	0.7
M	Spondylopathies and other MSS diseases		9	1.5
N	Diseases of the genitourinary system		61	10.0
		Renal failure	28	4.6
		Urinary tract infections	17	2.8
		Glomerular diseases	12	2.0
		Others††	4	0.7
O	Miscellaneous conditions		12

^*ICD= International Classification of Diseases and related health problems

^†= protozoal diseases

^§= malnutrition

^‖= nerve, nerve root, and plexus disorders not specifically diagnosed

^¶= acute rheumatic fever, deep venous thrombosis

^¶= Lung abscess

**= non-infective colitis, acute gastritis, chronic gastritis

^††= Other Disorders of genito-urinary tract whose diagnoses is not specified