Table 4 Availability of health service, easiness to get service, distance and time taken to reach facility with skilled attendant in Gura Dhamole woreda, Bale zone, Southeast, Ethiopia, April, 2017
Variables | Response | Frequency | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
Presence of HF which gives delivery service in your area | Yes | 292 | 75.5 |
No | 95 | 24.5 | |
Rating the easiness for getting institutional delivery services | Very easy | 93 | 24 |
Fair | 161 | 41.6 | |
Very difficult | 103 | 26.6 | |
Impossible | 30 | 7.8 | |
Distance from nearest HF with SBA in kilo meters | < 5 km | 116 | 30 |
5-10 km | 126 | 32.6 | |
10 km and above | 145 | 37.4 | |
Time taken to nearby HF with SBA | < 1 h | 92 | 23.8 |
1-2 h | 65 | 16.8 | |
2 h and above | 230 | 59.4 | |
Can you get transportation services to visit HF with SBA | Yes | 253 | 65.4 |
No | 118 | 30.5 | |
Do not know | 16 | 4.1 | |
Can you afford to pay for transportation services to visit HF | Yes | 211 | 54.5 |
No | 176 | 45.5 | |
Heard about presence of free ambulance service for labouring mother | Yes | 348 | 89.9 |
No | 39 | 10.1 | |
Used free ambulance service for transportation to HF during your last pregnancy and child birth | Yes | 46 | 11.9 |
No | 341 | 88.1 | |
Decision maker about the past place of delivery | Myself | 143 | 37 |
My husband/ Mother- in- law/Others | 57 | 14.7 | |
Both of us (Me and my husband) | 187 | 48.3 |