Erratum
Following the publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention that two values in Table 4 were incorrect:
In the Sabarkantha district, under the Deficit column, number 73 should read 37.
In the Dahod district, under the Deficit column, number 12 should read 13.
Table 4.
Indicator | Districts and number of births per year | ||||||||
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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
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