Table 2.
Availability of infrastructure supplies (available all the time)
| Kigali City (n = 6) |
Northern Province (n = 6) |
Southern Province (n = 11) |
Eastern Province (n = 9) |
Western Province (n = 12) |
Total (n = 44) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating room | 6 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 44 |
| Oxygen cylinder | 6 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 26 |
| Oxygen concentrator | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 33 |
| Running water | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 36 |
| Electricity | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 36 |
| Generator | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 36 |
| Basic laboratory | 6 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 43 |
| Anaesthesia machine | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 27 |
| X-ray machine | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 33 |
| Ultrasound machine | 6 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 38 |
| Blood bank* | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 27 |
| Dedicated postop. area | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 21 |
| Dedicated emergency area | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
*
Every hospital has a blood refrigerator for basic red cell availability. Further blood availability is at National Blood Transfusion Centres, which are available in every province. This represents a self-reported assessment of emergency blood supply at hospital level.