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Study on morbidity pattern among adolescents and services provided by tertiary care institutions in Sri Lanka
(Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo: PGIM., 2003) SIRITUNGA, TLSS
Most illness were due to symptoms, sighns and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not elsewhere classified,mostly due to fever,followed by injury,poisoning and sertain other consquances of external causes which where mostly due to accidents admissions to the N.H.S.L.during the first quarter of the year 2003.Nearly 15 percent of the adolscent who were admitted the N.H.S.L.had left the ward before dischange and about 60 percent of the atendence at the O.P.D.T.H.C.S Kalubowila had been discharged without giving an apointment to review.Over 905 of health care workers were aware of the adolescent health problems and their needs.Almost all adolecent and the health care workers suggested the need of a special place for conclution/examination.