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Funding for this research was provided by:
TETFund (TETFund/DR&D/CE/NRF/STI/33.)
Article History
Received: 4 September 2020
Accepted: 16 September 2020
First Online: 25 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: An ethical approval was obtained from the National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) with registration number: <b>NHREC/01/01/2007–23/01/2020 (approval date: January 23, 2020).</b> In addition, permissions will be obtained from the authorities of the selected tertiary hospitals. An informed consent will be obtained from each study participant prior to the involvement in the study. The collected data will be kept confidential and accessed only by the research team members.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.