Table 4.
Numbers of countries with nil/poor/good/excellent services in state hospitals.
| Availability in state service |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nil | Poor | Good | Excellent | |
| Sinus and rhinology surgery | ||||
| Endoscopic ethmoid sinus surgery | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| External ethmoidectomy | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 |
| Inferior meatal antrostomy | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
| Caldwell Luc/radical antrostomy | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 |
| Cosmetic rhinoplasty | 12 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
| Audiology and otologic surgery | ||||
| Audiology | 0 | 15 | 5 | 1 |
| Auditory brainstem reflexes (ABR) | 9 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) screening | 7 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| Hearing screening: newborn | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Hearing screening: schools | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Hearing screening: industry | 9 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Hearing aids | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| Myringotomies, ventilation tubes | 0 | 14 | 6 | 2 |
| Tympanoplasty | 2 | 13 | 5 | 2 |
| Mastoidectomy for cholesteatoma | 0 | 14 | 5 | 3 |
| Mastoidectomy for mastoiditis | 1 | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| Middle ear (ossicular) prostheses | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Bone anchored hearing aids | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Cochlear implants | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Head and neck oncologic surgery | ||||
| Total laryngectomy | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Speech prosthesis post-laryngectomy | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Partial laryngectomy | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| CO2 laser surgery | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Parotidectomy | 1 | 5 | 11 | 4 |
| Radical neck dissection | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 |
| Modified neck dissection | 7 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
| Selective neck dissection | 7 | 9 | 2 | 4 |
| Commando resection | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Total maxillectomy | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4 |
| Craniofacial resection | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| Pedicled flaps e.g. pectoralis major | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Free microvascular flaps | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Mini and microplates | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Fine needle aspiration | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Frozen section | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| High-cost equipment and services | ||||
| Flexible nasopharyngoscopy (NR1) | 2 | 12 | 3 | 5 |
| Operating microscopes | 1 | 14 | 4 | 3 |
| Otology drill | 2 | 14 | 4 | 2 |
| CO2 laser | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Ultrasound of neck | 2 | 4 | 11 | 5 |
| Computerized tomography (CT) scanning | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Positron emission tomography (PET) scanning | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Radiation therapy | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 |