Four months ago, Dr Nubwa Medugu took a call from a colleague in the hospital she works at in Abuja, Nigeria, asking her to come and see a six-year-old girl who had undergone cardiac surgery. Abeni (not her real name) had been prescribed antibiotics, but they weren’t working.
Medugu, who specialises in clinical biology and infectious diseases, found Abeni in a bad state; she had a fever, her heart rate was high, and her breathing was fast and shallow.
