Comparison of Mortality between Health Workers and General Population Infected with Covid-19

Objective: The main purpose of this study is to compare the mortality between health workers and general population infected with coronavirus disease. Study Design: Comparative/Retrospective study Place and Duration: Study was conducted at Medicine and Gastroenterology department of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad for duration of six months from 1st January 2021 to ¬¬¬¬¬¬30th June 2021. Methods: In this study 250 patients of both genders with coronavirus infection were presented. Age of the patients was between 18-70 years. Informed written consent was taken from all the cases for baseline details including age, sex, body mass index, socio-economic status and residency. Included patients were both symptomatic and asymptomatic to disease. Among 250 cases 125 patients were in the general population included in group I while other 125 cases were health workers included in group II. Patients were admitted to the hospital and examined for recovery. Outcomes among both groups were assessed and compared in terms of ICU admission, ventilation requirement and rate of mortality. We used the SPSS 25.0 version to analyze complete data. Results: In group I, 65 (52%) patients were males and 60 (48%) cases were females with mean age 47.66±8.87 years and in group II, 70 (56%) were males and 55 (45%) females with mean age 27.66±8.87. Mean BMI in group I was 25.11±8.33 kg/m2 and in group II, body mass index was 22.32±7.54 kg/m2. Majority of the patients i.e 73 (58.4%) in group I had poor socio economic status but in group II 50 (40%) cases had poor economic status. Majority of the cases among both groups were from urban areas 75 (60%) and 85 (64%). 48 (38.4%) were symptomatic in group I and 53 (42.4%) were in group II. Hypertension, diabetes mellitus and heart disease were the most common comorbidities. Frequency of ICU admission, ventilation requirement and mortality was significantly higher in general population 19 (15.2%), 24 (19.2%), 14 (11.2%) as compared to health workers 6 (4.8%), 7 (5.6%) and 5 (4%) with p value < 0.05. Conclusion: We concluded in this study that the severity of pandemic disease among general population was higher because of less use of preventive measures as compared to health workers and frequency of deaths, ICU admission and use of invasive ventilation in general population were also very high. Keywords: Mortality, ICU, Ventilation, General Population, Health workers, Coronavirus