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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Anesth Analg. 2017 Jan;124(1):290–299. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000001690

Table 6.

Demographic Data of Each Country

Variable Uganda Kenya Tanzania Rwanda Burundi
Populationa,b,c79 36.3 million (2012) 43.2 million (2012) 43.6 million (2012) 11.5 million (2012) 8.3 million (2010)
Number of physician anesthetists countrywide 30 (7%) 168 (17%) 22 (5%) 15 (4%) 2 (0.6%)
Number of nonphysician anesthetists countrywide 400 (93%) 800 (83%) 400 (95%) 350 (96%) 328 (99.4%)
% of cesarean deliveries done by physician and nonphysician anesthetists Largest percentage provided by nonphysician anesthetists: 1 physician anesthetist in the Eastern region (Mbale); 3 in the Western region (Mbarara); and the rest in the Central region. Physician anesthetists, 20%; nonphysician anesthetists, 80%. Nonphysician anesthetists provide largest percentage. Nonphysician anesthetists provide largest percentage. Physician anesthetists are only at the teaching hospitals CHUK, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Butare (CHUB), and some private hospitals in Kigali. Two physician anesthetists in the whole country: 1 at CHUK, the second at the Military Hospital. Nonphysician anesthetists provide largest percentage of anesthesia countrywide.

Abbreviation: CHU, Centre Hospitalier Universite.

a

UNICEF Uganda Statistics. 2012 [cited 2014 24/April/2014]; Available from: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uganda_statistics.html - 118

b

UNICEF Kenya Statistics. 2012 [cited 2014 24/April/2014]; Available from: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kenya_statistics.html - 118

c

UNICEF Rwanda Statistics. 2012 [cited 2014 24/April/2014]; Available from: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/rwanda_statistics.html - 118.