Fatal falciparum malaria and the availability of parenteral antimalarial drugs in hospitals.

The incidence of cases of malaria imported into the United Kingdom has increased.1 2 Early and appropriate treatment in Steroid-dependent patients are vulnerable to severe cases is vital, but hospital pharmacies may not always overwhelming infection with falciparum malaria stock parenteral antimalarial drugs. We report-on a case of fatal and other parasites. Parenteral antimalarial falciparum malaria in a patient on long-term steroid treatment drugs should be available in all hospitals and suggest that parenteral antimalarial drugs should always be admitting acutely ill patients available in district general hospitals in England and Wales that admit patients with acute illness.