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. 2019 Oct 5;4(Suppl 9):e001306. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001306

Table 3.

Percentage of facilities offering maternal health services and had the indicated medicines, by country

Benin
2013
n=189
Burkina Faso
2013 n=686
DRC
2014
n=1555
Mauritania
2013
n=232
Sierra Leone 2014 n=106 Togo
2012
n=101
Uganda
2013 n=209
Zimbabwe 2015 n=275
% of facilities offering maternal health services 70 87 77 55 91 91 53 90
Among facilities that indicated offering maternal health services, the percentage with the medicines
Oxytocin 63 80 40 37 49 80 46 85
Sodium chloride 51 38 32 28 54 50 36 70
Calcium gluconate injection 54 9 17 7 35 63 10 8
Magnesium sulfate injection 26 18 8 11 74 18 30 86
Ampicillin injection 64 83 47 44 23 70 30 2
Gentamicin injection 58 68 11 36 26 62 40 41
Metronidazole injection 42 41 24 27 58 19 19 2
Misoprostol 6 1 2 2 7 2 11 8
Azithromycin 10 1 11 6 6 7 11 1
Cefixime 1 1 16 3 3 2 7 1
Benzathine benzylpenicillin injection 14 78 29 30 31 56 30 66
Betamethasone or dexamethasone injection 43 11 46 33 51 50 20 4
Offering services and with all 12 essential medicines 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
Mean availability of the 12 medicines (%) 36 36 24 22 35 40 24 31