Penemuan Kasus Malaria Berdasarkan Pemeriksaan Mikroskopis di Kota Lubuklinggau dan Kabupaten Musi Rawas
The main strategy of World Health Organization (WHO) in the prevention and control of malaria, namely through case management that includes the detection, diagnosis, management and treatment of cases. The detection of malaria cases or patients with microscopic confirmation by the health services including hospitals both private and public is one of the main activities carried out in malaria elimination efforts. The purpose of this study was to determine the picture of malaria patients in Siti Aisyah and dr. Sobirin hospitals in 2016. Data collection with peripheral blood sampling and interviews using questionnaires with cross-sectional study design. The results of this research is the detection of 13 malaria Falciparum and Vivax patients from two hospitals ; two patients with malaria Falciparum and six with malaria Vivax in Siti Aisyah Hospital Lubuklinggau and five patients with malaria Falciparum in dr.Sobirin hospital Musi Rawas. The type of treatment of malaria which has been received by the respondents were with chloroquin, primaquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and also sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, each was six percents.