AdescriPtive retrospctive study of the
pattern of children admitted between
ugust 2002 and January 2005
inclusive to the department of Paediatrics of
Central Hospital Ughelli, an urban community
in the oil rich Niger-Delta region of Nigeria was
done. Children between 2 months and 3 years
constituted 64.1% of the total admissions and
79% of those with severe anaemia that required
transfusion. The neonatal admissions was just
0.3% of the total admissions but the neonatal
transfusion was O.7% of the total transfusions.
The B positive whose prevalence in general
society is estimated at 10% accountedfor 29.9%
of the transfused children.