Table 2.
Maternal health services and outpatients’ department users before and during the interventions, Oyam District, 2013–2014
| Indicator | Baby kits n (%) | Transport vouchers n (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control (Agulurude HC III) | Intervention (Ngai HC III) | Control (Amwa HC II) | Intervention (Atipe + Alao HC IIs) | |||||
| 2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | 2013 | 2014 | |
| Catchment population | 21,832 | 29,375 | 24,959 | 33,582 | 8649 | 11,637 | 25,878 | 26,235 |
| No. of expected deliveries | 950 | 1263 | 1086 | 1444 | 376 | 500 | 1126 | 1128 |
| Four ANC visits | ||||||||
| n (%) from catchment area | 284 (77.0) | 525 (72.6) | 235 (78.3) | 519 (90.4) | 152 (70.7) | 220 (75.6) | 125 (92.6) | 738 (89.5) |
| n (%) bypassing | 85 (23.0) | 198 (27.4) | 65 (21.7) | 55 (9.6) | 63 (29.3) | 71 (24.4) | 10 (7.4) | 87 (10.5) |
| Total four ANC visits | 369 | 723 | 300 | 574 | 215 | 291 | 135 | 825 |
| Institutional delivery | ||||||||
| n (%) from catchment area | 675 (79.4) | 646 (72.2) | 407 (80.4) | 734 (87.6) | 130 (77.8) | 249 (81.4) | 224 (98.2) | 811 (89.9) |
| n (%) bypassing | 175 (20.6) | 249 (27.8) | 99 (19.6) | 104 (12.4) | 37 (22.2) | 57 (18.6) | 4 (1.8) | 91 (10.1) |
| Total deliveries | 850 | 895 | 506 | 838 | 167 | 306 | 228 | 902 |
| PNC visits | ||||||||
| n (%) from catchment area | 61 (83.6) | 307 (74.7) | 29 (100) | 348 (94.3) | 33 (68.8) | 43 (69.4) | 7 (100) | 520 (93.4) |
| n (%) bypassing | 12 (16.4) | 104 (25.3) | 0 (0) | 21 (5.7) | 15 (31.2) | 19 (30.6) | 0 (0) | 37 (6.6) |
| Total PNC | 73 | 411 | 29 | 369 | 48 | 62 | 7 | 557 |
| Total OPD attendancea | 20,751 | 18,607 | 20,809 | 17,976 | 6834 | 6203 | 17,169 | 14,483 |
OPD Outpatients’ department, ANC Antenatal care, PNC Postnatal care. aOPD attendance is largely driven by malaria in the district. In 2014, there was a district-wide distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and indoors residual spraying for malaria control, which explain the drop from the 2013 figures