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Table 1 Treatment providers for children under 5 years of age with fever in Dembia district, Northwest Ethiopia

From: Treatments used for malaria in young Ethiopian children: a retrospective study

Treatment providers

Frequency (percentage)

Nurses

224 (50.1%)

Health extension workers

56 (12.5%)

Pharmacist/druggist

49 (11%)

Doctors

2 (0.4%)

Drug vender

16 (3.6%)

Traditional healers

38 (8.5%)

Family

60 (13.4%)

Not mentioned

2 (0.4%