Dorji, Thinley http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-8704
Das, Mrinalini http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1354-4299
Van den Bergh, Rafael http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-8713
Oo, Myo Minn http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4089-016X
Gyamtsho, Sonam
Tenzin, Karma
Tshomo, Tashi
Ugen, Sonam
Article History
Received: 8 January 2019
Accepted: 22 April 2019
First Online: 7 May 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was obtained from the Ethics Advisory Group of The Union, Paris, France, and Research Ethics Board of Health, Ministry of Health, Thimphu, Bhutan. Permission and support for the OR was sought from the hospital administrators (Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital, Thimphu; Central Regional Referral Hospital, Gelegphu; Eastern Regional Referral Hospital, Monggar; Damphu District Hospital, Tsirang) before initiating the OR. As the OR involved the review of existing MCH records, a waiver for informed consent was sought and approved by the ethics committees. For the in-depth interviews, written informed consent was taken from the study participants as per the consent process submitted to the ethics committees. Only anonymised data are presented in this paper.
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