CONCLUSION
Medical practice has become highly specialized and though, with subspecialization, physicians have become highly skilled in specific areas. This is largely to the advantage of patients with disorders limited to specific parts of the body system. However, patients such as those with NF, who have multi-system disorders, may be caught between the cracks, especially in Africa, where the cost of treatment is still largely borne out-of-pocket. Therefore, the logical solution to providing high quality healthcare to such patients is to provide treatment through multi-disciplinary teams. A multidisciplinary team may have to cut across traditional medical boundaries to involve other professionals and in some-instances even non-medical social groups, to ensure the delivery of holistic, patient-centered healthcare that is affordable, sustainable and of a quality that assures good outcome and promotes a reasonable quality of life.
Finally this study has the limitation of being a retrospective study with the occurrence of missing data/ information . For the instances of missing data, this was taken into account at the stage of data analysis.