“…It is also relatively higher than reports from South Africa and Malawi (median 14 days), and Chad (median 15 days) [17] [19]. However the median delay in this study is much lower than reports from Somali Region, Bale Zone, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nepal, Brazil and Tanzania ( median 60, 63, 60, 61, 50, 56, 62 days respectively) [7] [27]. The observed differences among these studies may be due to differences between countries and their health system, policies and infrastructure of the countries, differences in socio-demographic characteristics of the study population that is rural versus urban setups, and pure agrarian versus pastoralist communities.…”