ABSTRACT Products and services requisition, Procurement, warehouse management and rational medicine use are all part of pharmaceutical supply chain management cycle. They are critical at all levels of health care organizations and facilities. Pharmaceutical supply chain management cycle is influenced by various factors which determine whether it’s efficient or not. These factors include but not limited to human resources, standard operating procedures, organizational culture and procuremen...
Medical image play important role in medical investigation. Medical image use in telemedicine field too. When transferring or archiving was demanded, image needs to be compressed so as to reduce its size. Whereas reduction of image size contributes on reduce the bandwidth which is needed to transmit image and minimize the space of storage in archiving case. There are many standards used to deal with medical image like (PACS), (DICOM). In this research two algorithms were created to compr...
ABSTRACT Access to safe essential medicines is a key success indicator of a functional health system of which the private sector such as retail chemists plays a critical role. Despite their obvious benefits, medicines have the potential to cause harm in form of Adverse Drug Reactions that may not be determined in the drug development process. Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions leads to regulatory action that improve the safety profiles of medicines. However, reporting of adverse drug reacti...
Triphasic liver CT enables characterization of a wide range of focal liver lesions. The general objective of the study is to evaluate the role of CT in diagnosis of liver lesions. And furthermore to determine which lesion in the liver with high incidence, and to find out the geographic distribution of the liver lesions in Sudan. Sixty patients found to have focal tumoral liver lesions were recruited for 4 months period and their triphasic CT scans findings were evaluated and later correlate...
This is adescriptive study conducted in Bashaer hospital Khartoum city(Sudan).from may to August 2016. The main aim to assess the causes and incidence of . abortion using U/S A total of (50) patients were scanned using TRAultrasound machine, all of them suffering from abortion. Study was reveled that the highest incidence of abortion was incomplete abortion ( 56%) followed by complete abortion ( 24%) and then missed and threatened .abortion (10%) equally Data was collated using Data ...
The emergences of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) producing bacteria have important clinical and therapeutic implications. The present study was undertaken to detect extended spectrum beta lactamases among bacteria isolated from different clinical specimens. This study was carried out during period from April to August 2018. A total of 100 specimens were collected from patients admitted to Omdurman Military Hospital. These were from urine 73(73%), wound swab 20(20%) and sputum...
ABSTRACT Most cancer patients in Kenya do not have access to available cancer health care facilities, leading to increase in newly diagnosed oncology cases reported each year. Most studies conducted in Kenya lay more emphasis on the increased prevalence and incidence of cancers. Consequently, there is limited empirical research on access to oncology specialized healthcare services in Kenya, a research gap filled by this study. The main objective of this study was to determine factors influen...
ABSTRACT Health care financing (HCF) is one of the six building blocks of a health system. Kenya envisions having Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. In order to achieve this Kenya has identified and settled on National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) as a vehicle towards the realization of UHC. UHC is one of the country’s “Big-four” agendas. NHIF is Kenya’s sole social insurer which collects revenue, pools and purchases health services for its members. Purchasing can be passive ...
ABSTRACT Background: Antenatal care is an important aspect of preventive medicine directed at detecting and reducing the risk of complications among pregnant women. Clients' satisfaction indicates patients' judgement about the strengths and weaknesses of a health facility. It is a means of quality assessment in many areas of healthcare delivery Aims: This study compared clients' perception, preference and satisfaction with antenatal care services in selected public and private hospitals i...
ABSTRACT Reports show that most maternal deaths occur during the post natal period, yet this is when coverage and programmes of maternal and child health are at their lowest along the continuum of care in the local government, state, country and African region at large. Therefore it is important to investigate postnatal care practices carried out by mothers to reduce the trend. The aim of this is study was to assess postnatal care practices with respect to, perineal wound care, breast-feedin...
ABSTRACT The present study investigates the possibility of enhancing the solubility, and hence the bioavailability of poorly water soluble glimepiride via formation of polyethylene glycolpolyvinyl caprolactam - polyvinyl acetate grafted copolymer (Soluplus® ) and PEG 4000 based solid dispersions by solvent evaporation technique.Different batches of glimepiride solid dispersions (SD) were prepared using solvent evaporation method with Soluplus® and PEG 4000 as polymer matrix at different ra...
ABSTRACT This study was designed, to investigate the haemopoietic activity of Sesamum indicum, Linn lectin (Beeniseed). The lectin was obtained and authenticated in the Botany department, University of Nigeria Nsukka. The LD50 of the lectin was determined with mice (n=17). Wistar rats (n=35), weighing 140 to 200 grams, aged 6 to 8 weeks were purchased and housed in the Animal House of College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus for 7 days to acclimatize before the study. The Wist...
ABSTRACT Globally, a persistent negative attitude and social rejection of people with mental illness has prevailed throughout history in every social and religious culture. Having a mental health problem often stimulates with it a negative attitude, and such negative attitudes towards the mentally ill constitute great burden. This study aimed at assessing the attitude of nursing students towards the mentally ill before and after psychiatry training experience in Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hos...
ABSTRACT The levels of serum retinol, total serum proteins, serum albumin, serum globulins, albumin/globulin ratio, haemoglobin concentration, haematocrit, body weights as well as dynamics of A. galli (namely eggs per gram of faeces, worm establishment rate, total counts, male and female counts, females to males ratio, total worms weight and fecundity) were investigated in chickens experimentally infected with 350 eggs of A. galli and daily supplemented with 1500 I.U retinyl acetate. Forty, ...
ABSTRACT The study was designed to investigate perceived problems and academic need achievement motivation among students in School of Nursing UCTH Calabar in Cross River State, Nigeria. Survey design was used. Two standardized instruments were used to collect data from all the 194 students in School. Ten objectives were used to guide the study. Analysis of data was done with the aid of SPSS version 21. Results showed that nursing students under the different age groups and at varying class ...