Open AccessThe Importance of Paediatrics in Developing Countries
Author(s) -
Thomas Stapleton
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
paediatrica indonesiana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2338-476X
pISSN - 0030-9311
DOI - 10.14238/pi15.1-2.1975.1-7
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , tuberculin , vaccination , population , developing country , tuberculin test , tuberculosis , family medicine , environmental health , immunology , economic growth , pathology , economics
The rate of tuberculous infection is high. In many areas by the age of ten to fourteen years almost half the population have become tuberculin positive, not as a result of BCG vaccination, but as a result of infection acquired from someone in their environment.The fact that you have selected paediatric emergencies as one of the themes of this congress is merely a reflection that the overall mortality of children admitted to the children’s wards in a great teaching hospital such as you have here in Surabaya is of the order of fifteen to twenty per cent.