Maniram, Jennal
Oosthuizen, Frasia
Karrim, Saira B.S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Article History
Accepted: 20 February 2023
First Online: 22 March 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: To maintain confidentiality, no information that could identify patients was extracted during the data collection process. As this study obtained information from patient files, with no direct contact with patients, informed consent was not needed. Ethical approval was obtained from the Biomedical Research and Ethics Committee (BREC), UKZN (Reference number - KZ_202112_018) and KZN Department of Health (KZN-DOH). Consent for access to the patient’s files was sought from the Medical Management of the public hospital which is managed from the district office of KZN.