Back ground
Neonatal surgical care and neonatal intensive care is lacking in Uganda
while jejunoileal atresia and stenosis are still the most common causes
of neonatal intestinal obstruction with high mortality and morbidity in
a low resource setting.
Herein, we presented a 4-day-old neonate who presented to the emergency
department as a referral from distant peripheral hospital with features
of acute abdomen and septicaemia. He was resuscitated and an ileostomy
diversion created. He recovered uneventfully from the hospital and
discharged. However, he passed on upon readmission six weeks later from
severe acute malnutrition.