Pediatrics is the branch of medicine dealing with the health and medical care of infants, children, and adolescents from birth up to the age of 18.
Conditions treated include;
- Malaria
- Acute respiratory tract infections – pneumonia, pharyngitis/tonsillitis, otitis media
- Diarrhoea
- Anaemia
- Septicaemia
- Sickle cell anaemia
- Childhood malignancies
- Childhood tuberculosis
