In this retrospective audit, we aimed to determine admission patterns in our ICU during a 7-year observation period. We found that the two most common admission diagnoses were identical to those reported by ICUs located in other parts of the world [5] [6] [7] . The overall mortality rate of 40.1% is comparable to reports from other African country ICUs [5] , but much higher than that reported by ICUs in high-income regions of the world (at between 10-20.9%) [6] [7] [8] .