Table III.
Use of mosquito netting in the wards
| Ward | Door screens |
Window screens |
Bed nets |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N occupied beds | Absent n (%) |
Present but torn n (%) | Present and intact n (%) | |||
| Male medical | Absent | Absent | 22 | 17 (77.3) | 2 (9.1) | 3 (13.6) |
| Male surgical | Absent | Absent | 9 | 8 (88.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (11.1) |
| Female medical | Absent | Absent | 79 | 78 (98.7) | 1 (1.3) | 0 (0.0) |
| Female surgical | Absent | Absent | 11 | 10 (90.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (10.1) |
| Male orthopaedic | Absent | Present but torn | 23 | 8 (34.8) | 10 (43.5) | 5 (21.7) |
| Psychiatric | Absent | Present but torn | 7 | 7 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Antenatal | Absent | Present but torn | 14 | 13 (92.9) | 1 (7.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| Children's emergency room | Absent | Present but torn | 10 | 10 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Postnatal | Absent | Present but torn | 24 | 24 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Absent | Present but torn | 32 | 31 (96.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.1) |
| Paediatric | Absent | Present but torn | 32 | 32 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Maternity | Absent | Present but torn | 29 | 28 (96.6) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.4) |
| Sickle Cell | Absent | Present but torn | 2 | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) |
| Burns & plastic surgery | Absent | Present but torn | 8 | 8 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Total | Absent in all wards | Absent in 4 of 14 wards | 302 | 274 (90.7) | 16 (5.3) | 12 (4.0) |