Cerebral palsy in Ibadan, Nigeria.

In a three-year study of cerebral palsy (CP), CP accounted for 16.2 per cent of new referrals to a child neurology clinic. 63 per cent of these had potentially preventable causes (not including intracranial infections), associated with chronic shortage of care personnel and inadequate finances for effective rehabilitation services. It is suggested that training and deployment of nurse-physiotherapists, combined with intensive health education, is a feasible solution to the problem.