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A partograph is a graphic pre-printed paper that provides visual display of recorded observations carried-out on a mother and foetus during labour for early detection of abnormalities. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advocated and recommended compulsory use of partograph in the monitoring...

Background: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common complication of general anaesthesia. There are documented risk factors associated with PONV which include female gender, non-smoker, and history of motion sickness, use of opioids and surgery duration of more than 60 minutes. Other...

Introduction: The immune system of patients with haematological malignancies is suppressed during chemotherapy. This renders them vulnerable to frequent infections especially bacterial. Timely diagnosis of these infections is difficult, because a severe infection may be asymptomatic or manifest...

Remote sensing provides area coverage, and aids the mapping and classification of land cover features, such as vegetation, soil, water and forests. However, with remote sensing using medium to coarse spatial resolution imagery, some difficulties are encountered in the definition of vegetation...

Wildlife utilisation for livelihoods frequently conflicts with conservation, raising challenges of integrating rural livelihood issues into conservation agendas. However, the reality of wildlife utilisation in rural areas, especially Game Management Areas cannot be stated simply; it is a...

At first glance, functional literacy appears to be a concept that provides people with the ability to read and write. Functional literacy has been used to provide people with vocational education that is seen to be more practical in nature and relevant to every country’s needs in particular...

The study sought to investigate youth conversion from mainstream to Pentecostal churches. The objectives of the study were; to explore reasons for youth conversion to Pentecostalism; examine the reactions of church leaders who may be losing youths to Pentecostalism and; to ascertain the reaction...

Solid waste management (SWM) has become a global burning environmental issue influenced by rapid population growth, urbanization, socio-economic development and the consumerism syndrome of the complex society. Zambia, like many other countries, has not been spared from environmental challenges...

This study is a comparative analysis of narrative technique and plot structure in two Zambian novels. There are no available studies on the plot structure and narrative techniques of the two novels, John Luangala’s The Chosen Bud and Malama Katulwende’s Bitterness more especially a comparative...

Background: Surgery in the groin region is commonly performed in paediatric patients at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). Intramuscular (IM) Diclofenac and wound infiltration, with lignocaine, are the commonest analgesics administered intra-operatively. The aim of this study was to...