Dr Eki-Udoko, a consultant paediatrician who disclosed this during an interview with the Newsmen in Benin, on Tuesday, described childhood emergencies as conditions that were life-threatening to a child.
According to him, the hospital records up to 6,000 paediatric emergency cases annually, many of which arrive in critical condition.
”These conditions range from infection like diarrhea, diseases, respiratory infection to non-infectious causes like children with asthma, convulsion, epilepsy, cancer.