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

Table 4.

Percentage of facilities offering child 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 with child health services 93 95 88 72 97 99 93 99
Among facilities offering child health services, percentage that had the essential medicines
Amoxicillin 56 87 47 56 89 79 28 86
Ampicillin injectable 82 88 49 54 25 75 36 2
Ceftriaxone 38 76 15 6 7 66 33 31
Gentamicin 71 70 11 48 29 70 51 0
Benzyl penicillin 9 9 28 20 50 16 36 80
ORS 69 81 54 49 88 82 73 93
Zinc 66 31 21 13 81 50 65 95
ACT 84 86 59 19 67 84 82 96
Artesunate 9 3 4 4 22 19 8 2
Vitamin A 61 38 25 39 68 76 75 95
Morphine 2 2 1 3 5 4 2 2
Paracetamol 57 82 25 51 70 66 34 64
Offering services and with all 12 essential medicines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mean availability of the 12 medicines (%) 50 54 28 30 50 57 44 54

ACT, artemisinin-based combination therapy; ORS, oral rehydration salts.