Paediatric emergency medicine practice in Nigeria: a narrative review

Dublin Core

Title

Paediatric emergency medicine practice in Nigeria: a narrative review

Subject

Paediatric, Emergency medicine, Practice, Quality of service, Capacity needs, Funding, Nigeria

Description

The practice of paediatric emergency medicine in Nigeria is still evolving, and laden with enormous challenges
which contribute to adverse outcomes of childhood illnesses in emergency settings. Deaths from childhood
illnesses presenting as emergencies contribute to overall child mortality rates in Nigeria. This narrative review
discusses existing structures, organization, and practice of paediatric emergency in Nigeria. It highlights some of
the challenges and suggests ways of surmounting them in order to reduce deaths in the children emergency units
in Nigerian hospitals. Important aspects of this review include current capacity and need for capacity development,
equipment needs for emergency care, quality of service in the context of inadequate healthcare funding and the
need for improvement.

Creator

Joy N. Eze , Benedict O. Edelu , Ikenna K. Ndu and Tagbo Oguonu

Publisher

BMC Emergency Medicine

Date

(2023) 23:31

Contributor

Fajar bagus W

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Text

Files

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Citation

Joy N. Eze , Benedict O. Edelu , Ikenna K. Ndu and Tagbo Oguonu, “Paediatric emergency medicine practice in Nigeria: a narrative review,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 3, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/4322.