Table 2. Practices related to transfusion transmitted malaria in three hospital departments.

	All (N = 151)	Medicine(N = 41)	O&G(N = 51)	Paediatrics(N = 59)
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Clinical diagnosis of malaria in admission (%)	50 (30)	0 (0)	9 (18)	41* (70)
Anti-malarial use (%)	66 (44)	3 (7)	12 (24)	51 (87)
Type of anti-malarial given
Quinine	26 (40)	0 (0)	0 (0)	26 (51)
Artemether-Lumefantrine	18 (27)	3 (100)	12 (100)	3 (6)
Artesunate-Amodiaquine	22 (33)	0 (0)	0 (0)	22 (43)
Time of prescribing anti-malarial
With transfusion	51 (77)	1 (33)	7 (59)	43 (84)*
At least 24 hours before transfusion	8 (12)	1 (33)	1 (8)	6 (12)
Within 24 hours post- transfusion	4 (6)	0 (0)	3 (25)*	1 (2)
Unknown	3 (5)	1 (33)	1 (8)	1 (2)
Other drugs
Furosemide (%)	60 (40)	2 (5)	6 (12)	52 (88)
Antibiotics use (%)	118 (78)	25 (61)	49 (96)	44 (75)
Post transfusion fever (%)	34 (23)	3 (7)	12 (24)	19 (32)

^*confirmed by positive malaria microscopy in one case.