Table 5.
Selected indicators of admitted and possible induced abortions in 6 months of PAC register data in 3 hospitals, 2009–2010
| Month of Observation in Each Hospital |
Case number |
Marital status (A) |
Age (B) |
Gestation/Parity (C) |
Gestational age (D) |
Mode of uterine evacuation (E) |
Practitioner (F) |
Type of abortion recorded in PAC register (G) |
Ultimate classification of abortion (H) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Hospital 1 | 1 | Single | 18 | 2/1 | 20 weeks | Expulsion, digital curettage | Midwife | Abortion | Spontaneous |
| 2 | None listed | 13 | 0/0 | None listed | None listed | None listed | None listed | Spontaneous | ||
| Hospital 2 | 1 | Married | 26 | 2/0 | 1 month | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Midwife; patient referred from Clinic X | Induced Abortion | Induced Abortion | |
| 2 | None listed | 30 | 1/1 | 2 months | Digital curettage | Midwife | Spontaneous | Spontaneous | ||
| 3 | ‘?’ | 18 | 1/0 | 2 months | Digital curettage | Midwife; patient referred from Clinic X | Spontaneous | Spontaneous | ||
| Hospital 3 | 1 | Single | 18 | 1/0 | None listed | Expulsion | Midwife; patient referred from Clinic X | Late abortion | Spontaneous | |
| 2 | Single | 19 | 1/0 | 2 months | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Physician | Incomplete abortion | Spontaneous | ||
| 3 | Single | 18 | 1/0 | None listed | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Physician | Molar abortion | Spontaneous | ||
| 4 | Single | 19 | 1/0 | None listed | Electric aspiration | Physician | Molar abortion | Spontaneous | ||
| 5 | None listed | 26 | 1/? | 2 months | Dilation and curettage | Physician | Hemorrhagic abortion | Spontaneous | ||
| 6 | ‘?’ | 14 | 1/0 | 2 months | Expulsion at home | Midwife | None listed | Spontaneous | ||
| 7 | Single | 31 | 2/1 | 6 weeks | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Physician | Ovulatory retention | Spontaneous | ||
| 8 | Single | 30 | 4/3 | 3 months | Expulsion | Physician; patient referred from Maternity X | Induced Abortion | Induced Abortion | ||
| 2010 | Hospital 1 | 1 | None listed | 22 | 3/3 | None listed | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Midwife | Incomplete abortion | Spontaneous abortion |
| 2 | Single | 38 | 6/4 | 1 month | Digital curettage | Midwife | Spontaneous abortion | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| 3 | Single | 18 | 1/0 | 2 months | Digital curettage | Midwife | None listed | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| 4 | Single | ‘?’ | 2/1 | 4 months | Digital curettage; Expulsion of fetus at home, not brought to hospital, according to patient’ |
Midwife | Spontaneous abortion | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| Hospital 2 | 1 | Married | 17 | 1/0 | 7 months | Expulsion; hemorrhage | Midwife | Spontaneous | Spontaneous | |
| 2 | Married | 19 | 1/0 | 5 months | Manual Vacuum Aspiration; complications of infection | Midwife; ‘Patient brought by Police of Town X’ | Induced Abortion | Induced Abortion | ||
| 3 | Married | 16 | 1/0 | ‘?’ | Manual removal of placenta | Midwife | ‘?’ | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| Hospital 3 | 1 | Single | 22 | 2/1 | None listed | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Physician | Empty sac | Spontaneous abortion | |
| 2 | Single | 23 | 2/1 | None listed | Dilation & Curettage | Physician | Induced abortion | Induced abortion | ||
| 3 | Single | 19 | 1/0 | None listed | Dilation & Curettage | Physician | Hemorrhagic abortion | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| 4 | Married | 30 | 1/0 | None listed | Manual Vacuum Aspiration | Physician | None listed | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| 5 | Single | 18 | 1/0 | 4 months | Expulsion of 2 stillborn fetuses | Midwife | Fetal abortion | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| 6 | None listed | 23 | 5/3 | None listed | Digital curettage | Physician | Late abortion | Spontaneous abortion | ||
| Total number of cases | 26 | |||||||||