Background: Despite, the availability of standard treatment protocols for severe acute malnutrition in stabilization centers in Ethiopia, children under-five admitted were unsatisfactorily high mortality. Therefore little is known about the survival status and determinants of mortality for the study setting. Objective: to assess the survival status and determinants of mortality among severely malnourished children aged 0-59 months admitted to Jinka Hospital.Methods: The hospital-based retrospective cohort study was conducted from March 20-30, 2019. Simple random sampling was used to select...