International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS)
ISSN: 2319-5886 Indexed in: ESCI (Thomson Reuters)
Alam Eldin Musa Mustafa
Department of Child Health, College of Medicine, King Khalid university, Abha, Saudi ArabiaPublications
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Research
Evaluation of the In-patient Therapeutic Feeding Program Used for Children Admitted with Severe Protein Energy Malnutrition in El-Obied Specialized Pediatric Hospital
Author(s): Najlaa Adam Musa and Alam Eldin Musa Mustafa*
This hospital-based retrospective analytical study was done during the year 2018 in El-Obied specialized pediatric hospital in Sudan and included the 296 children under the age of 5 years who were admitted to the inpatient center for treating acute severe malnutrition. This center is the main center in the whole state of Kordofan in Sudan with under 5-year children in the whole state approaching about 700,000 children. The center is a very crowded center containing only 25 beds with sometimes more than one patient on the same bed. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the use of the standard protocol of inpatient management of severe malnutrition in this center which is under the supervision of the federal and state ministry of health and also to assess aspects of the duration of therapy and outcome of management. A prepared questionnaire was used to fill i.. Read More»
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