Table 2.

Prescription indicators using WHO core indicators and Africa Region

Prescribing indicators assessed	Total medicines or encounters	Average or percent	WHO Optimal Value [1]	Standard derived for Africa region [2]
Average number of medicines per encounter	1056	1.76	1.6–1.8	< 2
Percentage of encounter with antibiotics	318	53.0%	20–26.8	45.9
Percentage of encounter with injection	47	7.80%	13.4–24.1	28.4
Percentage of medicines prescribed by generic	878	83.14%	100	65.1
Percentage of medicines from essential medicine list	1039	98.39%	100	89