Table 3 Distribution of admitted cases of poisoning in relation to cause of poisoning
Categories of poisoning | Cause of poisoning | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Drug abuse | Accidental | Intentional | Not recorded/ Unknown | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Rodenticides | 0 | 0.0 | 445 | 16.2 | 1821 | 39.3 | 6 | 1.3 |
Pharmaceutical drugs | 1 | 1.3 | 470 | 17.1 | 946 | 20.4 | 266 | 58.6 |
CNS abused drugs | 75 | 96.2 | 567 | 20.7 | 1036 | 22.3 | 77 | 17.0 |
Chemicals | 2 | 2.6 | 727 | 26.5 | 259 | 5.6 | 13 | 2.9 |
Insecticides | 0 | 0.0 | 368 | 13.4 | 435 | 9.4 | 40 | 8.8 |
Animal envenomation | 0 | 0.0 | 18 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 39 | 8.6 |
Botulism | 0 | 0.0 | 18 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.0 |
Unknown | 0 | 0.0 | 131 | 4.8 | 139 | 3.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Total | 78 | 100 1.0 | 2744 | 100.0 34.7 | 4637 | 100.0 58.6 | 454 | 100.0 5.7 |