Diagnostic tools needed
Valérie D’Acremont, medical doctor, working in my hospital, just published " Beyond Malaria — Causes of Fever in Outpatient Tanzanian Children" (see article) . This article reminded me of the challenges we were experiencing when taking care of patients in outpatient departments OPD in rural areas of Angola and Liberia. ( I was working in these countries with Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF in 2006)
The outpatient departments’ waiting room is full every morning with children attending with fever. I remember arriving at the hospital at 7 AM for the night shift report and finding the OPD waiting room already full with mothers and their sick babies and kids.