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.