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Mortalite hospitaliere infantile au Chu de Kara
Abstract
Introduction: Social and political unrests and devaluation of the CFA franc in years 1990 disturbed sanitary data in Togo. This survey aims to value after this period children mortality rate and factors which correlated this mortality.
Methods: It is about an analysis of files of children of 0 to 15 years old admitted in the paediatric ward at CHU-Kara during the year 2003. The studied parameters were anthropological, epidemiological, and aetiological.
Results: The 126 children deaths kept out of 136 recorded represent 11.15% of admitted children with a sex ratio of 1.25. Neonatal mortality (43.5%) especially precocious (38.9%) remains raised. Only 42.8% of patients had less than 24 hours of delay of consultation. Deaths in the 24h of admission occurred in 66.7%, 48% of these deaths during guards. The main causes of deaths were neonatal affections (neonatal suffering, sepsis, prematurity) in 42%, severe malaria (25.5%), and anaemia (8.7%).
Conclusion: Children mortality still high at CHU-Kara with infections the main cause based on nutritional deficit. It requires better preventions and takes illnesses in charge as well as a backing of the
technical tray to improve the prognosis.
Methods: It is about an analysis of files of children of 0 to 15 years old admitted in the paediatric ward at CHU-Kara during the year 2003. The studied parameters were anthropological, epidemiological, and aetiological.
Results: The 126 children deaths kept out of 136 recorded represent 11.15% of admitted children with a sex ratio of 1.25. Neonatal mortality (43.5%) especially precocious (38.9%) remains raised. Only 42.8% of patients had less than 24 hours of delay of consultation. Deaths in the 24h of admission occurred in 66.7%, 48% of these deaths during guards. The main causes of deaths were neonatal affections (neonatal suffering, sepsis, prematurity) in 42%, severe malaria (25.5%), and anaemia (8.7%).
Conclusion: Children mortality still high at CHU-Kara with infections the main cause based on nutritional deficit. It requires better preventions and takes illnesses in charge as well as a backing of the
technical tray to improve the prognosis.
