Haftom Hadush

Background. Drug use evaluation is a systematic approach to determining the appropriateness of drug use, identifying drug therapy problems, and proposing interventions. Ceftriaxone is one of the most widely used drugs in hospitals, requiring the performance of drug use evaluation. This study was aimed at evaluating the appropriateness of ceftriaxone use at Kahsay Abera and Mearg hospitals in the Western zone of Tigray, Ethiopia. Methods. An institution-based retrospective cross-sectional study design was conducted in both hospitals from December 2015 to August 2016 using standardized and pretested data collection formats. Systematic random sampling was used, and a total of 800 patients’ medication records (patients who took ceftriaxone) from both hospitals (400 each) were assessed in this study. Statistical analysis was performed by using the statistical package for social sciences (version 20). Results. The overall appropriateness of ceftriaxone use in Kahsay Abera and Mearg hospit...

Wastewater can be defined as water that has been badly affected in quality by anthropogenic effect and the possible origin can be from domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, surface run off or storm water and from drain inflow or infiltration. Quality of water and other food can be checked by the presence of Coliform bacteria because these bacteria are the predominant indicators. The purpose of this study was to determine the microbial quality of irrigated cabbage with wastewater in Laelay Maychew and Tahtay Maychaw woredas of Aksum by checking the Coliform bacteria’s load as the farmers use wastewater for irrigation to cultivate different vegetables. A total of four samples were taken randomly using glass bottle and 11.05x10 8 cfu/m/ of coli form was isolated using MacConkey Agar. Samples were directly transported to Aksum university department of biology laboratory and processed within five hours. Eosin, methylene blue agar Levine (EMB), MacConkey Agar was us...