Profile of Malaria Pediatric Patient’s Waikabubak Hospital, East Nusa Tenggara period of January-December 2021

Malaria is one of the public health problems that can cause death, especially in high-risk groups such as infants, toddlers and pregnant women. Indonesia as tropical area which malaria is spread throughout the archipelagos, especially in eastern Indonesia.

Method: This study aims to determine the profile of malaria in pediatric patients of Waikabubak Hospital, East Nusa Tenggara Province for the period January 2021 to December 2021. This is retrospective analytic descriptive study, by accessing medical record data of patients. The research subjects were pediatric patients aged 1 month to 18 years old who suffered malaria.

Results: In this study, 53 subjects were positive for malaria. Patient characteristics were dominated by female gender 28 subjects (52.8%), with the highest age group being 1-5 years old 26 (49.1%), body mass index was dominated by underweight as much as 44 (83%). The most common symptom was fever in 19 subjects (35.8%). Another complaint was fever with seizure 9 (17%). This study was dominated by subjects with tropical malaria as many as 31 (58.5%). The lenght of hospitalization in this study was dominated by 3 days as many as 39 (73.6%). The medications that often used were Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine (DHP) and Primaquine as many as 36 (67.9%). The most common comorbid disease in this study was pneumonia as many as 13 (24.5%).

Conclusion: Malaria pediatric patients in Waikabubak Hospital are dominated by female toddlers aged 1-5 years old, underweight. The most common complaints were fever, length of hospitalization was generally 3 days with the most common diagnosis was tropical malaria and the frequent given medication were DHP and Primaquine.