Objective: Sterilization operation, being one of the popular methods of population control is increasingly performed in Naihati State General Hospital. The purpose of this study is to highlight the demographic evaluation of sterilization cases at this institution

Methods: This study was undertaken at Naihati State General Hospital, Nadia, W.B. from January 2010 to December 2018. A total of 1625 cases were reported to have undergone sterilization operation. Interval sterilization in the form of laparoscopy (48%) and mini-laparotomy (23%) were found to be more acceptable than postpartum (9.6%) sterilization cases.

Most of the women 67.0% were in the age group of 25-34 years with parity of 2 to 3 constituting 74.5%and 84.2% of cases. About 48.6% patients belonged to lower income group and 35.6% middle income group respectively.

86.8 % were from Hindu community and 13.2 % were from Muslim community. Educational status showed that 44.2% patients were illiterate, 30.2% educated up to class VI, 21% up to Class VIII and high school level 4.6% respectively.

It appeared from this study that acceptability of sterilization operation at Naihati State General Hospital were found to be better in spite of low socio-economic status. It goes without saying that better understanding and acceptance of family planning programme by the rural population of Naihati. However socio-economic status of the families of rural population have to be improved further to reach higher target of sterilization operation cases and acceptance of other forms of spacing contraceptives.

Keywords: sterilization, population, demography

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