Pakistan Journal of Pharmacology Vol.23, No.1, January 2006, pp.13-29 COMMUNITY BASED EPIDEMIOLOGICAL/STATISTICAL STUDIES OF MALE PATIENTS/DISEASES IN OUT-PATIENT- DEPARTMENT AT SHIFA-UL-MULK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR EASTERN MEDICINE HALIMA NAZAR, KHAN USMANGHANI, ABDUL HANNAN, AND AFZAL AHMED Departments of Pre-Clinical Sciences and Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Hamdard University, Karachi ABSTRACT Brief Description: Shifa-Ul-Mulk Memorial Hospital for Eastern Medicine is the first and only Hospital in Pakistan, providing health care facilities through Unani/herbal System of Medicine. It is a 50-beded Hospital providing free health care. It has well equipped Wards, Laboratory, Operation Theater, Labour room, etc. The Hospital was founded in 2000 and since, it is the only Health Care Center of >28 villages near the city of education, Bait-Ul-Hikmah. Purpose: Statistical data based on number of patients, diseases, age groups, etc has long been needed in order to promote and elevate the health care facilities to the patients of the rural areas around the Bait-Ul-Hikmah. The objective of our study is to determine the prevalence of male diseases specially those, not responded to therapies of modern medicine. Also, we have an eye on the diseases which are occurring more frequently, so that we are able to target the etiology and better management of these diseases. Results: 35, 216 male patients were seen at the OPD. 6,919 in the Year 2000, 9,144 in 2001, 9,693 in 2002 & 9460 in 2003. Number of patient’s increases from 2000 to 2002 & decreases in 2003. Disease of GIT (34.47%) has the highest prevalence while Respiratory disease (22.89%) being the second. Age group of 18-45 years has got the largest numbers and most of the patients were married. Respiratory, skin & infectious diseases are more common in children. Keywords: Male Outpatients- Disease frequency-Age distribution-Key facts. YEAR 2000 Introduction The study reports from January 2000 to December 2003. In the Year 2000, there is a total of 6919 male outpatients were seen at the OPD of Shifa-Ul-Mulk Memorial Hospital, at a rate of 577 patients/Month (Fig. A1). It has been obvious from the graph A1 that number of patients increases in the middle of the year (April-September), while there frequency decreases at the extremes of the calendar year (October-March).June is the Month that contains the highest number of patients i.e. 696, whereas the least number of patients were seen in December i.e. 436. Diseases Frequency Illnesses regarding GIT (35.04%) and respiratory system (23.62%) have got the highest frequency. The other diseases accounts for only 41.34%. From these ENT (2.16%) and endocrinal (1.74%) diseases have very minor contribu-tions. Infectious diseases, dermatological prob- lems, urolethiasis and sexual weaknesses are also occurring quite frequently. Age Distribution Table-A1 shows some very interesting features. For the sake of convenience, we divide the patients into three groups according