Abstract:

Background: Malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality especially among chidren and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa where at least 90% of malaria deaths occur. The World Health Organization estimates that the number of malaria deaths in young children in sub-Saharan Africa in 2000 ranged from 710,000 to 896,000

Objective: To determine the treatment outcomes of under-five admitted with complicated malaria at Sekou Toure regional hospital on January to December 2018.

Method: It was be a retrospective cross-sectional hospital-based study. The minimum sample size of 333 calculated from Yamane Taro formula.

Results: Study involved 319 under-five children at Sekou Toure Hospital, in which the mean age of children were 2.7 years. About 79 (24.8%) and (22.5%) presented with anaemia and hypoglycemia complication respectively. Admitted children stayed at hospital for a median 2.5 days with a range of two to 8 days. Out of all admissions 37 (11.6%) died, referred 11 (3.4%) and 271 (84.95%) discharged home.


Conclusion and recommendation: The findings from this study revealed that, there is high fatality rate of malaria and good treatment outcome of under-five children admitted at Sekou-Toure hospital, there is much association between treatment outcome and hospital stay as well as treatment outcome and complications of malaria. Education is needed to mothers with under-five children on how to prevent their child on getting malaria which may end up to death.