Availability, Utilisation and Quality of Basic and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care Services in Malawi

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作者
Kongnyuy, Eugene J. [1 ]
Hofman, Jan [1 ]
Mlava, Grace [2 ]
Mhango, Chisale [3 ]
van den Broek, Nynke [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool Sch Trop Med, Child & Reprod Hlth Grp, Liverpool L3 5QA, Merseyside, England
[2] Hlth Fdn Consortium, Lilongwe, Malawi
[3] Minist Hlth, Reprod Hlth Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi
关键词
Emergency obstetric care; Maternal and neonatal health care; Quality of care; UN process indicators; Malawi; CESAREAN-SECTION; WOMEN;
D O I
10.1007/s10995-008-0380-y
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Objective To establish a baseline for the availability, utilisation and quality of maternal and neonatal health care services for monitoring and evaluation of a maternal and neonatal morbidity/mortality reduction programme in three districts in the Central Region of Malawi. Methods Survey of all the 73 health facilities (13 hospitals and 60 health centres) that provide maternity services in the three districts (population, 2,812,183). Results There were 1.6 comprehensive emergency obstetric care (CEmOC) facilities per 500,000 population and 0.8 basic emergency obstetric care (BEmOC) facilities per 125,000 population. About 23% of deliveries were conducted in emergency obstetric care (EmOC) facilities and the met need for emergency obstetric complications was 20.7%. The case fatality rate for emergency obstetric complications treated in health facilities was 2.0%. Up to 86.7% of pregnant women attended antenatal clinic at least once and only 12.0% of them attend postnatal clinic at least once. There is a shortage of qualified staff and unequal distribution with more staff in hospitals leaving health centres severely understaffed. Conclusions The total number of CEmOC facilities is adequate but the distribution is unequal, leaving some rural areas with poor access to CEmOC services. There are no functional BEmOC facilities in the three districts. In order to reduce maternal mortality in Malawi and countries with similar socio-economic profile, there is a need to upgrade some health facilities to at least BEmOC level by training staff and providing equipment and supplies.
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