Malaria and delayed referral claim a young boy’s life
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August - 2024, Posted On: 01 August 2024
The patient, a young boy and the only child to his parents, was admitted at the hospital with complains of body ache and high fever. He remained hospitalised for four days during which the doctors conducted several tests and adopted a conservative line of treatment.
On the third evening, the boy’s urine output had reduced and he also developed respiratory problems. The young lad was referred to another hospital, from where he was referred to another higher centre for better medical care. Unfortunately, he died the same evening at this third hospital. The cause of death was septicaemia with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy with acute renal failure. Malaria was the root cause of boy’s death.