ABSTRACT Jatropha cultivation for biofuel production in Tanzania started in 2006 and the process has kept on increasing. In Meru District it has continued through inter-cropping system, which can lead to food insecurity due to its competition with food crops in its growth requirements. A cross sectional research design was adopted in this study to examine how jatropha production as biofuel raw material influences food availability in the District. Overall, 232 male and 58 female farmers were...
A cross sectional study was conducted from February to May 2017 to investigate the prevalence of abomasal nematodes infection and to assess the relationship between the occurrence of these parasites and factors of age, sex, locality, body condition and breed in slaughtered sheep in Khartoum State, Sudan. A total of 350 abomasi were collected from three slaughterhouses namely: Karary, Nasr eldeen and Sabaloga in Karary, East Nile and Umbada localities respectively, and examined using pos...
This study was conducted among recurrent miscarriage and non miscarriage women in Wad madani teaching hospital to determine the prevalence of syphilis among those with previous miscarriage and those who had no miscarriage before . A total of ninety samples (n=90) were collected, during the period from April to June 2018, to demonstrate the frequency of syphilis and to compare between different diagnostic methods used for detection of syphilis. All samples were tested by using immunochro...
ABSTRACT Academic help is central to students’ academic adjustment and success. Nursing students encounter learning difficulties; thus, need assistance or advice to continue with learning tasks. That is why, as part of quality assurance, the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVETA), and the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) demand that training schools provide for students’ academic support. However, even with these regulat...
ABSTRACT The delivery of health interventions requires skilled and adequately supported health personnel. Work-life balance is the maintenance of a health workers balance between responsibilities at work and at home. The inadequacies of work-life balance practices in public hospitals has become a major concern among health workers resulting to high absenteeism and lateness, less time spent in clinical care, and increased patient waiting time. The general objective of the study was to establi...
This is a descriptive study to estimate the normal size of the uterus in Sudanese women and to compare the same variables amongst nulliparous vs multiparous ones. It was carried out in Khartoum state, during the period from September to October 2018. The study is done for 50 women age between 20-50 years 28 of women (56%) were nulliparous and 22 women (44%) were multiparous and excluded womenwith uterine pathology, pregnancy and those below the age of 20 and above 50 years. The data is ...
This study was conducted as retrospective case study aimed to determine the frequency of HPV (16 and 18) and EBV among Sudanese with esophageal cancer using immunohistochemistry and PCR. The study included one hundred and two 102 paraffin blocks from patients previously diagnosed as esophageal cancer from Khartoum Sudan, in Ibn Sina hospital, khartoum hospital, soba teaching hospital, military hospital and national health laboratory. Their age ranged from 21 to 98 years old with mean ag...
ABSTRACT Various organizations employ different human resources initiatives in order to increase efficiency. The most common initiatives employed to improve efficiency include performance contracts, internal contracting, contracting-out and outsourcing of services among others. Employing such initiatives are considered among the primary HRM practices, which are aimed at determining the equilibrium between workforce supply and the ability of healthcare practitioners to practice effectively an...
The aim of the study was to determine the role of ultrasound in relationship between placental location and fetal gender in second and third trimester of pregnancy. An analytic, observational study was performed at multi-centers and hospitals in Khartoum state, during the period from (June-Sep2016). The study excluded congenital abnormal uterus, multiple pregnancies in normal uterus and fetal demises, congenital fetal anomalies, technical factors make fetal gender not clear. The study...
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...