How malaria misdiagnoses, others trigger dire outcomes

Despite accounting for 27 per cent of global malaria cases and 31 per cent of deaths, studies reveal that up to 83 per cent of patients are wrongly treated for malaria based on symptoms alone, without laboratory confirmation, despite national guidelines advocating test-based diagnosis before treatment.

by NKECHI ONYEDIKA-UGOEZE and IJEOMA NWANOSIKE