Neonatal Sepsis and Associated Factors among Neonates Admitted to NICU in Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Sidama Regional State, South Ethiopia, 2020

Neonatal sepsis is a condition defined as a clinical syndrome characterized by signs and symptoms of infection in an infant 28 days of life or younger. In Ethiopia, regardless of the marked reduction in neonatal mortality neonatal sepsis still accounts for more than one-third (33%) of neonatal deaths in the country.