Analysis of medical admissions into children’s ward of the Ekiti state specialist hospital, Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria, 2000-2001

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The study reported was based on the retrospective study of the pattern of illness as recorded for in-patients of the Ekiti State Specialist Hospital, Children’s Ward, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, between 2000-2001. The age range of the children was 0-15 years with a total population of 1226 distributed as 537 (2000) and 689 (2001). The results showed the six highest morbidity patients as follows: anaemia, 367 (29.9%); plasmodiasis, 255 (20.8%); gastroenteritis, 102 (8.3%); pneumonia, 92 (7.5%); measles, 68 (5.6%) and enteric fever, 63 (5.1%). It was found that measles was a disease of dry season particularly January – April. The disease categories showed that the infectious diseased patients were 157 (1-68) with a percentage of 12.8 (0.08-5.6); digestive was l and 0.08%; respiratory was 103 (11-92) with percentage of 8.4 (0.9-7.5); circulatory was 255 and 20.8% ; infections of the nervous system was 53 (13-40) with a percentage of 4.3 (1.1-3.3). In 20/27 places or 70.1% morbidity in 2000 < 2001; similar in 2/27 or 7.4% places and > 2001 in 5/27 or 18.5% despite the fact that only 11 months data were available in 2001.

Retrospective study ; medical admissions; children’s ward