31 results match your criteria: "Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital[Affiliation]"

Background. Overweight and obesity are risk factors for diet-related noncommunicable diseases. These diseases are the fifth leading risks for global deaths.

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Background: Intestinal parasitic infections are significant cause of morbidity and mortality in endemic countries. In Ethiopia, helminthiasis was the third leading cause of outpatient visits. Despite the health extension program was launched to address this problem, there is limited information on the burden of intestinal parasites after implementation of the program in our setting.

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Poor symptomatic tuberculosis screening practices in a quarter of health centres in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Public Health Action

December 2014

Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia.

Setting: In 2011, Ethiopia introduced a strategy of symptomatic tuberculosis (TB) screening for patients attending out-patient services to increase identification of presumptive TB.

Objective: To assess implementation and factors affecting symptomatic TB screening at out-patient departments in health centres in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Design: Using a cross-sectional study design, 86 randomly selected public health centres providing DOTS were included in the study.

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Improving neonatal mortality in an Ethiopian referral hospital.

BMJ Qual Improv Rep

January 2016

Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia/Bahir Dar University.

Ethiopia has one of the world's poorest neonatal mortality rates (1). As a British paediatrician working for one year, the main aim was to improve neonatal care in a referral hospital's neonatal unit. An initial project looking at all admissions to the unit over the month of October 2012, revealed the death rate within the unit was 21% of all admissions.

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Objective: The study aims to evaluate the HIV-1/2 rapid diagnostic test kit is routinely used to screen HIV infection for safe blood transfusion and VCT services in many parts of Ethiopia.

Methods: A total of 324 sera were collected from consecutive blood donors from February to May 2006. All samples were screened for HIV infection using Determine HIV-1/2 (Abbott Japan) at hospital blood bank laboratory.

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Unifocal langerhans cell histiocytosis presenting with pathological fracture.

Ethiop Med J

January 2007

Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, P.O. Box 89 I, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.

A 13-year-old Ethiopian female patient who initially presented with localized pain and minimal soft tissue swelling later developed pathological fracture of the left femnur. The patient was initially treated as a case of osteomyelitis until the diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (histiocytosis X, eosiniphilic granuloma) was made by bone biopsy. The clinical presentation of the case and brief review of the literature is discussed.

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