My first Encounter with Meningococcal Meningitis #TogetherAgainstMeningitis

On Monday morning, a child was admitted to our hospital with a high-grade fever that the mother claimed had started the previous night. Over the last 17 hours, the poor child was not taking any feeds and seemed to hate being touched, which was breaking his mother's heart, confused as she was about why the paediatricians were looking so grim for 'just a fever.'

When I came to the ward on Tuesday morning, the child's bed was empty. The nurses informed us that the child passed away the previous n...