Accessibility of basic paediatric emergency care in Malawi: analysis of a national facility census

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Characteristics of emergency-equipped hospitals in Malawi, 2013–2014

		Total facilities	Total hospitals	Emergency-equipped hospitals ^a
		N	N	N	% (95% CI)
Total	Total	977	116	4	3.5 (1.3–8.9)
Region	Central	364	43	1	2.3 (1.2–16.8)
	North	167	23	2	8.7 (0.6–25.2)
	South	446	50	1	2.0 (0.3–13.1)
Urban/Rural	Urban	299	62	2	3.2 (0.8–11.9)
Urban/Rural	Rural	678	54	2	3.7 (0.9–13.8)
Managing authority	Government	478	50	1	2.0 (0.3–12.9)
	CHAM	160	41	3	7.3 (2.4–20.5)
	Other private	339	25	0	–

^aThere were 4 emergency-equipped facilities in Malawi including 3 hospitals and 1 health centre. Proportions of emergency-equipped facilities were tabulated among hospitals since those are targeted for ETAT implementation, although the future ETAT+ programme will be targeted to hospitals and health centres. Point estimates were also weighted to account for unequal probabilities of selection due to non-response. There were 1060 facilities on the national facility list and 977 (92.1%) facilities were audited in this national facility census. The level of statistical significance was set to 0.05

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