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Table 1 Hospital Deliveries, Neonatal Unit Admissions and Outcomes

From: Facility readiness in low and middle-income countries to address care of high risk/ small and sick newborns

Type of Hospital

1.UG- d

Tertiary Urban

2.UG- Public Regional Urban

3.UG- Public Regional Urban

4.UG- Public District Urban

5.UG- Public District Urban

6.UG- Public District Rural

7.UG- Public District Rural

8.UG- Public District Rural

9.UG- d

District Rural

10.UG- d

District Rural

11. INDO- Public Tertiary Urban

12. INDO- Public Tertiary Urban

13. INDO- Public RegionalUrban

14. INDO- Public District Urban

15. INDIA- d

Tertiary Urban

16. INDIA- Public Tertiary Urban

Total Births

5105

8569

5689

6506

5605

3206

2768

2276

2122

1002

1719

1644

3209

3109

14,710

X

Live Births

5013

8247

5468

6224

5486

3109

2659

2183

1938

951

1608

1524

3179

2989

14,469

X

Total Still Births (no/1000 total births)

92 (18 per 1000)

322 (38 per 1000)

221 (39 per 1000)

282 (43 per 1000)

119 (21 per 1000)

97 (30 per 1000)

109 (39 per 1000)

93 (41 per 1000)

184 (87 per 1000)

51 (51 per 1000)

111 (65 per 1000)

120 (73 per 1000)

30 (9 per 1000)

120 (39 per 1000)

241 (16 per 1000)

X

Fresh SB (% of total SB)

38 (41.3)

164 (50.9)

114 (51.6)

137 (48.6)

78 (65.5)

47 (48.5)

61 (56.0)

45 (48.4)

111 (60.3)

31 (60.8)

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

X

Annual Admissions to NU

2463

1729

1707

1164

506

1586

240

300

180

156

1600

1028

970

1900

3115

2188

Inborn Babies (% of live births)

2178 (43.4)

NA

1603 (29.3)

NA

279 (5.1)

1586 (51.0)

NA

NA

180 (9.3)

156 (16.4)

1269 (78.9)

893 (58.6)

691 (21.7)

1311 (43.9)

2798 (19.3)

X

Out-born Babies (% of NU admissions)

285 (11.6)

NA

104 (6.1)

NA

227b (44.9)

c

NA

NA

c

c

429 (26.8)

135 (13.1)

279 (28.8)

589 (31.0)

317 (10.2)

2188 (100)

Babies < 2500 g (% of admissions)

NAa

422 (24.4)

705 (41.3)

NAa

NAa

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

824 (51.5)

758 (73.7)

373 (38.5)

999 (52.6)

1746 (56.1)

1054 (48.2)

Neonatal Deaths (% of admissions)

115 (4.7)

106 (6.1)

94 (5.5)

156 (13.4)

114 (22.5)

45 (2.8)

48 (20.0)

24 (8.0)

34 (18.9)

24 (15.4)

70 (4.4)

82 (8.0)

91 (9.4)

242 (12.7)

46 (1.5)

383 (17.5)

“Discharged against medical advice” (% of admissions)

NA

NA

341 (20)

NA

10 (2)

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

8 (0.5)

NA

4 (0.4)

NA

89 (2.9)

62 (2.8)

  1. Hospitals # 2, 4, 7 and 8 maintained data only on the total number of admissions in the neonatal unit and not on the numbers of inborn and out-born babies
  2. NA - Not available; X – Not applicable; a - Information relevant to birth weight was not available for all babies from the hospital record sections, hence percentage of babies below 2500 g. was not calculated for these centers; b- out-born newborns with suspected infection, sent to pediatric ward; c- All out-born admissions are sent to pediatric ward; d - Private, Not for Profit Hospital; UG Uganda, Indo Indonesia