Health status and imprisonment profile of jail inmates of district jail Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan

摘要

Out of 850 total prisoners of district jail, Rahim Yar Khan, 100 were selected atrandom and examined for prevalence of HIV. Apart from HIV screening, data was collected aboutdifferent diseases, narcotics use, occupations, reasons for imprisonment, ages and marital status ofthe prisoners through a questionnaire. None of these prisoners was suffering from HIV, the resultsregarding narcotics habits showed that 3% of the prisoners were used to bhang, 4% took heroin, 5%were using snuff, 34% cigarette smokers and 54% were not taking any narcotics. Nineteen percentof the prisoners suffered from various diseases like asthma, allergy, chest infection, hernia, heartproblem, jaundice, lung infection, ulcer, weakness, typhoid and gastric problems whereas 81% werehealthy.