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Background:Assessment of availability of essential medicines is a critical component of universal health coverage and important factor to address patients’ satisfaction and increase their health seeking behavior. Proper inventory management of essential drugs in the health facilities is critical in ensuring availability of essential drugs. The objectives of the study were to assess availability of essential medicines and inventory control practice in university of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital.Methods:The study was conducted using institution based cross sectional study design from March 10 to April 10, 2019. The data was collected by data abstraction formats and structured observation checklist and data was analyzed by Microsoftoffice excel for the assessment of the essential medicine’s availability and inventory control practices in Gondar university comprehensive specialized hospital.Results:The overall average availability of essential medicines during survey period in Gondar university hospital was 79.17%. The average stock out in the last six months period was 41.67%. The mean duration of stock out of essential medicines of the hospital in the last six months period was 31.7 days and average frequency of stock out was 0.7. The discrepancy between physical count and stock record count of essential medicines ranged from 0% to about 95%.Conclusions:The average availability of essential medicines during data collection period was fairly high. However, the facility was stock out for significant percent of essential medicines over the last six monthsperiod and stock out to lesser extent of percent at the time of survey period
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Background: Hypertension in diabetes is an added burden and the comorbidity a faster genesis of many cardiovascular diseases that exposes the diabetics to several complications, disabilities and higher mortality rate than the non-diabetics. This study therefore asses the knowledge and control practice of hypertension among the hypertensive diabetics attending the endocrine clinic of LAUTECH Teaching hospital Osogho, Osun state.Methods: A quantitative descriptive survey design was adopted and a total enumeration method was used in recruiting 102 hypertensive diabetics. A structured questionnaire was administered and used to collect data. Descriptive statistics was used to answer the research questions.Results: The overall knowledge level of hypertension among the hypertensive diabetics was above average with overall mean score of 54.01 (65.9%). The control practice level was fair with overall mean score of 45.1%.Conclusions: Efforts to increase the knowledge and control practices of hypertension should not focus only on general health education, but individual specific knowledge needs. practical sections that show case the lifestyle practices that will explain what hypertension self-care maintenance, monitoring and management practices such as exercise sections, diet sections actually means should be incorporated in the clinic routine.