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Article History

Received: 28 May 2023

Accepted: 11 October 2024

First Online: 11 November 2024

Declarations

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: Before conducting this study ethical clearance letter was obtained from the ethical review committee of the school of Nursing on behalf of the institutional review board of the University of Gondar, after approval of the proposal [26/01/2015 E.C or 03/09/2022 G.C] and (Ref. No:—S/N/036/2015). A written permission letter was obtained from Amhara Public Health Institute for each Hospital  . A waiver permission letter was obtained from hospital administrators before the data collection and since the neonates were not directly involved in this study (the data were obtained from charts review) informed consent was not required, but extracted data from medical records were kept confidentially. All methods were carried out under the declarations of Helsinki and relevant guidelines and regulations. So, anonymity was maintained by using the identified number instead of the patient’s name. Besides, all data extracted were kept confidential and not used for any other purpose than the stated objective.

: Not Applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.