A cross-sectional, descriptive study aimed at determining the epidemiological characteristics of ill children transferred from different health care facilities to the emergency department of the Children Hospital No1 who died within the first 24 hours after admission was carried out from March 2003 to February 2004 on 34 subjects gives the following results: mortality within first 24 hour of transferred patient was 37.4% among deaths of transferred patients, 58.5% died at the emergency department of the Children Hospital No1.