Current Paediatrics
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 157-162, April 2002

A day in the children's unit of Mulago Hospital, Uganda

  • Christiane Ronald (Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics)

      Affiliations

    • Child Advocacy International, 79 Springfields Road, Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6RY, UK
    • ,
  • David Southall (Professor of Paediatrics and Honorary Director)

      Affiliations

    • Child Advocacy International, 79 Springfields Road, Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, ST4 6RY, UK

Abstract 

The emergency ward for children in Uganda's main teaching hospital provides care for up to 200 seriously ill children per day. The poverty of funding available to this State Hospital results in a chronic lack of drugs, medical supplies and essential equipment. Child Advocacy International is helping local staff to improve standards with training programmes in neonatal and paediatric life support, pain control and palliative care. It is also piloting the Child Friendly Healthcare Initiative (Paediatrics 2000; 106: 1056–1064). This article describes conditions in the children's unit of Mulago hospital during one 24-h period in 1999.

Keywords: international child health, emergency paediatrics, Uganda, pain control, child friendly healthcare initiative, malaria

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  • f1 Correspondence to: DS. Tel.: +44(0)1782 712599; Fax: +44(0)1782 610888; E-mail: cai_uk@compuserve.com

PII: S0957-5839(01)90268-4

doi:10.1054/cupe.2001.0268

Current Paediatrics
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 157-162, April 2002

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