Table 3.
Sources of medicines for the management of recent illness in children
Survey period | ||
Source of medicines | 2000 | 2003 |
N = 184 % | N = 185 % | |
Herbs at Home | 18.9 | 11.5 |
Clinic/Hospital | 18.4 | 39.3 |
Drug Store | 60.4 | 24.6 |
Left over medicine | ---- | 23.5 |
Herbalist/Traditional Healer | 0.9 | 1.1 |
Other | 1.4 | 0.0 |