Table 2.
Number of MCH facilities owning different types of equipment before and after MCH system strengthening.
| Equipment | MCH hospitals (n = 5) |
Town health clinicsa (n = 28) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | End point | Change | Baseline | End point | Change | |
| Lever weight scale | 2 | 1 | −1 | 10 | 20 | 10 |
| Horizontal bed | 2 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 19 |
| Vertical height gauge | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 24 | 11 |
| Tape measure | 3 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 28 | 6 |
| Neonatal resuscitation equipment | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Automatic chemistry analyzer | 2 | 5 | 3 | – | – | – |
| Automatic microelement analyzer | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – |
| Automatic blood instrument | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – |
| Children overall quality tester | 1 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – |
| Fetal heart monitor | 3 | 5 | 2 | – | – | – |
| Full-field digital mammography system | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Hearing screening instrument | 2 | 5 | 3 | – | – | – |
| Infant radiant warmer | 2 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Neonatal jaundice tester | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – |
MCH, maternal and child health.
a
According to their needs of practical work, township health clinics were equipped with four types of equipment for child growth monitoring.