This study was aimed to identify the risk factors of low birth weight in Bale zone hospitals.
Treatment is within easy reach of pregnant women living with HIV who no longer need to travel to one of the major zone hospitals to get their antiretroviral medication.
The findings of this study showed that the presence of significant association between the socio-economic, maternal and household environmental factors and birth weight of the new-borns among mothers who gave birth in Bale zone hospitals.
However, based on the information from the writings of contemporaneous psychiatrists on their experience in the combat zone hospitals it is likely that they dealt with the less chronic cases, whereas the Berlin cases often came to admission after a protracted course of several months up to over a year.
They say it's as bad as a military-war-zone hospital.
However, none of these zones appeared in more than two of the eight models, and each had an OR that was lower or much lower than that for the zone around hospital H in the corresponding model.
Thus, LD was 4.8 11.4 times more likely to develop in persons who passed through the zone around hospital H during the risk period than in persons who did not travel through this zone, independent of their having passed through the other zones.
The case-control study showed a significant association, with a high consistency between the analyzed models and with a high magnitude of association, between passing through the zone around hospital H and being ill with LD. Results were similar even when the area radius was expanded to 400 m.
Failing to distinguish between the trapped civilians and the rebels, the report said, the government has carried out "indiscriminate" artillery attacks on civilians who are trapped in the war zone, shelling hospitals and other designated as humanitarian "safe zones".
An area of the camp that had been a playground and art exhibit for the children of protesters was turned into a war-zone field hospital.
The current study focused on factors influencing professionalism in nursing in Mekelle zone public hospitals.
