Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on complicated malaria admissions and outcomes in the paediatric Ho Teaching Hospital of the Volta Region of Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Since Ghana recorded its first cases of COVID-19 in early March 2020, healthcare delivery in the country has been hugely affected by the pandemic. Malaria continues to be an important public health problem in terms of morbidity and mortality among children, and it is responsible for significant hospital visits and admission. It is likely that, as with other illnesses, the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted health seeking behaviour, hospital visits, and admissions of malaria among the paediatric population in Ghana. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the admissions and outcome of complicated malaria in the Ho Teaching Hospital of the Volta Region of Ghana. The medical records of children admitted for complicated malaria (cerebral and severe malaria) fr

SUBMITTER: Orish VN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021415 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature