Table 2.
Timeliness of vaccine uptake for specific vaccines at the KATH MCH clinic, 2012
| Vaccine |
Timeliness of receipt of vaccine |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Too early |
On time |
Acceptably early |
Delayed |
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| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| BCG* |
N/A |
N/A |
230 |
88.9 |
12 |
4.6 |
17 |
6.6 |
| OPV 0 |
N/A |
N/A |
229 |
95.8 |
10 |
4.2 |
0 |
0 |
| OPV/DPT/HiB/HepB 1 |
6 |
2.3 |
232 |
89.6 |
14 |
5.4 |
7 |
2.7 |
| OPV/DPT/HiB/HepB 2 |
6 |
2.5 |
205 |
86.5 |
17 |
7.2 |
9 |
3.8 |
| OPV/DPT/HiB/HepB 3 |
4 |
1.9 |
176 |
83.1 |
16 |
7.5 |
16 |
7.5 |
| Measles/Yellow fever | 3 | 3.1 | 49 | 50.5 | 29 | 29.9 | 16 | 16.5 |
*BCG- Bacille Calmette-Guerin; N/A: not applicable; OPV- Oral Polio Vaccine; DPT- Diphtheria, Pertussis and Tetanus; HepB- Hepatitis B.