BACKGROUND Coping with diabetes control is difficult for newly diagnosed and experienced patients alike. Children with diabetes face severe challenges, as they may not yet have attained the necessary cognitive, fine motor or psychosocial skills required for performance of the tasks required from the diabetic patient. Most therefore require some adult assistance. OBJECTIVES To establish whethe...

Antibiotics are a critically important part of paediatric medical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where infectious diseases are the leading cause of child mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that >50% of all medicines are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately and that half of all patients do not take their medicines correctly. Given the rising prevalence...

Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS) is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders requiring abdominal surgery in infancy. Whilst the operation is relatively routine and complications are low in developed countries, in resource poor settings, the condition can be fatal due to lack of paediatric surgeons and neonatal aneasthetists in most hospitals. However, current WHO guidance...

Ovarian pregnancy is very rare and to our knowledge, no case has been reported in Cameroon. We herein report a case at the Yaounde Central Hospital. It is the case of a 29 years old woman who consulted in emergency for left pelvic pain at 9 weeks of pregnancy. The level of beta human chorionic gonadotropin was 96702 milli-international Units/ milliliter and ultrasound revealed an intra-ovarian ...

Introduction: Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) accounts for 2% of global cancer diagnoses and deaths, its incidence is increasing globally. In Africa, the RCC relatively low but many patients present late with advanced-stage disease consequently, poorer prognosis. Anaesthetic care these important. Materials Methods: This a ten-year retrospective study conducted at University Port Harcourt Teaching Ho...