3.1 Patients Demographic Characteristics:
In this study about 200 patients from the medical wards, selected in
accordance with WHO core indicators, were involved. As per collected
data, the arrangement of the patients with respect to their ages showed
that 22 (11.00%) were at the age ≤ 18 years old, 115 (57.5%) were
between the 19-60 years old, the rest 63 (31.5%) were >60
years old. Out of those 200 selected patients, 57 (28.5%) were females
and 143 (71.5%) were males. In these total 200 patients 115 (57.5%)
were hospitalized for 1-3 days, 53 (26.5%) for 4-5 days and 32 (16%)
for >5 days, as tabulated in Table 1.