Table 2.

Service delivery indicators, base and targets from the Republic of Zambia's national surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia plan

				Target
Results chain	Indicator	Means of verification	Base	Mid term 2019	End term 2021
Output 6: Establish and strengthen the provision of quality comprehensive, highly specialized, and complex surgical case at level 2 and 3 hospitals	No. of facilities providing pain management services on labour wards		0	18	36
	No. of facilities providing paediatric anaesthesia		6	18	36
Output 6: Establish and strengthen the provision of quality comprehensive, highly specialized, and complex surgical case at level 2 and 3 hospitals	No. of facilities providing neonatal anaesthesia	Level 2 and 3 hospital annual reports, MoH annual reports	2	3	7
	No. of facilities providing cardiac anaesthesia		0	1	2
	No. of facilities providing renal anaesthesia		2	3	4
	No. of facilities with functioning ICUs		4	8	16
	No. of facilities with functioning neonatal ICUs		1	2	2
	No. of facilities with HDUs		9	18	36
	No. of facilities that received and are utilizing admission and treatment protocols to ICUs/HDUs		0	8	16
	No. of facilities providing out‐of‐theatre anaesthesia		1	2	2

MoH, Ministry of Health; HDU, high‐dependency unit.