Publications by authors named "Firew Tekle"
Background: Globally, sixty-two percent of cerebrovascular disease and forty-nine percent of ischemic heart disease are attributable to increased blood pressure. Half of the patients with stroke and heart disease were due to hypertension.
Objective: This study aimed to identify prevalence of hypertension and its associated factors in Gimbi town, Ethiopia.
Article Synopsis
- Diarrhea is a significant health issue for children under 5 in Ethiopia, contributing to preventable morbidity and mortality.
- Data from the 2016 Ethiopian National Survey revealed that 10.2% of these children experienced diarrhea within the two weeks before the survey, highlighting the problem's prevalence.
- Key factors influencing diarrhea included not receiving treatment for illnesses, delayed breastfeeding initiation, and lack of prenatal care, indicating the need for improved maternal health education.
As the Ethiopian health system faced critical resource constraints, wise use of the available health resources is a priority agenda. Therefore, our study aimed to assess technical efficiency of maternal and reproductive health services in public hospitals of Oromia regional state, Ethiopia. Two-stage data envelopment analysis was performed among 14 hospitals with input orientation and variable returns to scale assumptions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The fact that the majority of patients come late creates management difficulties as these first hours are important to avoid secondary insults to the brain and preserve the ischemic penumbra. Although thrombolytic treatments are currently not available in our hospital, significant delays during the prehospital or in-hospital phases of care create management difficulties and would make such advanced treatments impossible in the future in Ethiopia.
Methods: Prospective observational study was carried at stroke unit of Jimma University Medical Center for 4 consecutive months from March 10 to July 10, 2017.