AN OVERVIEW OF THE PEDIATRIC MORTALITY IN THE PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL OF ELBASAN DURING 2000-2011

During 2000-2011 in the Pediatric service of Elbasan there have been hospitalized 20,370 cases, while 96 of them have passed away. In this research can be easily seen that during a period of 10 years, the number of cases hospitalized in the hospital have variations and not that high decrease, compared to the number of cases of mortality where from 18 cases in 2000 have decreased in 3 cases in 2011. This is a very positive indicator which is connected with some factors , like the improvement of socio-economic level and health service. This is connected also with the decrease of the number of births, immigration, etc, quoted even from other authors.