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. 2016 Aug 9;16:369. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1559-3

Erratum to: The dominance of the private sector in the provision of emergency obstetric care: studies from Gujarat, India

Mariano Salazar 1,, Kranti Vora 2, Ayesha De Costa 1,2
PMCID: PMC4979186  PMID: 27506769

Erratum

Following the publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention that two values in Table 4 were incorrect:

  1. In the Sabarkantha district, under the Deficit column, number 73 should read 37.

  2. In the Dahod district, under the Deficit column, number 12 should read 13.

Table 4.

Staff and facilities per district compared against WHR 2005 benchmarksa

Indicator Districts and number of births per year
Sabarkantha (births: 67,965) Dahod (births: 64,222) Surendranaga (births: 67,965)
Number of facilities or staff Number of facilities or staff Number of facilities or staff
Current WHR 2005 Deficit Current WHR 2005 Deficit Current WHR 2005 Deficit
CEmOC 15 19 4 5 18 13 3 11 8
BEmOC 1 38 37 0 36 36 2 22 20
Less–than-BEmOC + C-sections 41 n.a n.a 12 n.a n.a 19 n.a n.a
Midwives (nurses)b 103 378 275 98 357 259 51 224 173
Doctors (all) 126 57 0 55 54 1 59 34 0

aWHR 2005 benchmarks recommend the following: a. 20 midwifes and three part-time doctors per 3600 births and b. one CEmOC facility and one to two BEmOC per 3600 births. bIncludes nurses and auxiliary nurses. Assuming all births delivered by this cadre

Footnotes

The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1473-8.

References

  • 1.Salazar M, et al. The dominance of the private sector in the provision of emergency obstetric care: studies from Gujarat, India. BMC Health Serv Res. 2016;16:225. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1473-8. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

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