Table 1.

Summary of admissions and deaths for all children, pneumonia, births, neonatal deaths and referrals

	Total paediatric admissions 37 hospitals	Paediatric deaths 37 hospitals	Pneumonia admissions 36 hospitals	Pneumonia deaths 36 hospitals	Births 35 hospitals	Neonatal deaths 35 hospitals	No of paediatric referrals 35 hospitals
Pre-intervention	31 158	1392	10 228	377	33 633	370	2262/21 455 *
Post-intervention	27 166	867	8705	153	30 776	349	1062/22 235 *
Total	58 324	2259	18 933	530	64 409	719	3397

*Total admissions denominator is different because the two provincial referral hospitals were excluded from this analysis.