Asare Yeboah, Esther Eyram
Mbanga, Joshua
Amoako, Daniel Gyamfi
Agyepong, Nicholas
Abia, Akebe Luther King
Ismail, Arshad
Owusu-Ofori, Alexander
Essack, Sabiha Yusuf
Article History
Received: 18 December 2024
Accepted: 2 June 2025
First Online: 2 July 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the KATH (Reference: KATH IRB/AP/107/20) and the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Reference: BREC/00001917/2020). Voluntary, informed written consent was obtained from participating patients and staff.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.