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Table 3 Operational capacity of health facilities to provide quality comprehensive EmOC according to select characteristics (N = 647)

From: Distribution and quality of emergency obstetric care service delivery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: it is time to improve regulatory mechanisms

 

No. Of Facilities

Guidelines On Comprehensive EmOC, n (%)

P Value

HWs Trained In CEmOC, n (%)

P value

Operational Capacity Score, %a

Province

  

< 0.001

 

< 0.001

 

 Sud Kivu

60

32 (53.3)

 

34 (56.7)

 

53.5

 Katanga

78

20 (25.6)

 

14 (17.9)

 

51.3

 Nord Kivu

82

47 (57.3)

 

48 (58.5)

 

46.7

 Kinshasa

66

33 (50.0)

 

34 (51.5)

 

43.4

 Kongo Central

73

34 (46.6)

 

29 (39.7)

 

41.4

 Bandundu

60

10 (16.7)

 

13 (21.7)

 

34.6

 Equateur

36

5 (13.9)

 

6 (16.7)

 

34.6

 Maniema

38

7 (18.4)

 

10 (26.3)

 

34.6

 Kasaï Occidental

50

11 (22.0)

 

25 (50.0)

 

34.4

 Province Orientale

57

10 (17.5)

 

18 (31.6)

 

32.9

 Kasai Oriental

47

7 (14.9)

 

4 (8.5)

 

20.4

Type

  

 

 

 Hospital

433

155 (35.8)

 

167 (38.6)

 

47.4

 Referral health center

174

55 (31.6)

 

56 (32.2)

 

38.5

 Health center

35

5 (14.3)

 

11 (31.4)

 

36.5

 Health post

5

1 (17.1)

 

1 (17.1)

 

11.9

Administrative identity

 

0.211

 

0.110

 

 Public

316

98 (31.0)

 

105 (33.2)

 

34.8

 Private

331

118 (35.6)

 

130 (39.2)

 

41.9

Location

  

0.003

 

0.001

 

 Urban

185

78 (42.2)

 

86 (46.5)

 

47.8

 Rural

462

138 (29.9)

 

149 (32.3)

 

34.3

Total

647

216 (33.4)

 

235 (36.3)

 

38.7

  1. HW healthcare worker
  2. aWhen no health facilities offered quality basic or comprehensive EmOC, the operational capacity was calculated as a proportion of the corresponding items available at each health facility