A miracle!
I was walking along the row of patients waiting to see the doctor yesterday and one lady called out excitedly to me. I looked at her smiled and greeted her but her face did not ring a bell. A few minutes later, a nurse walked up to me with the same woman and said Doctor this is Mrs XYZ. I looked at her in utter amazement, she looked nothing like the patient she had been a few weeks ago! What was so amazing about her? She had been a patient in our intensive care unit just a few weeks ago. She had Tetanus! If you look up the care of patients with tetanus in any medical textbook written by anyone in a developed country, it is most likely that you will find nothing on the subject, if you do you wont find the information you need. Tetanus is no longer seen in such settings. On the other hand in Nigeria, tetanus cases are still prevalent. As a house officer during my shift working in the neonatal intensive care unit, I had as many as four babies on admission at a time during a period of two