Table 3. Medical complaints at formal and informal healthcare facilities across the slums.
| Health Service Providers | Migrant (%) | Indigenous (%) | Cosmopolitan (%) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | NC | GP | MP | C | NC | GP | MP | C | NC | GP | MP | |
| Formal HF | ||||||||||||
| Public H | 39.8 | 28.8 | 40.7 | 59.2 | 45.7 | 43.8 | 48.7 | 50.0 | 40.6 | 33.8 | 42.5 | 55.3 |
| Private H | 24.3 | 32.7 | 38.1 | 40.8 | 21.3 | 14.8 | 18.4 | 45.0 | 25.8 | 25.7 | 35.1 | 40.0 |
| Pharmacy | 8.2 | 14.9 | 6.2 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 18.2 | 9.2 | 0.0 | 7.8 | 18.5 | 7.7 | 0.0 |
| Informal HF | ||||||||||||
| Patent Medicine Vendors | 24.5 | 22.1 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 20.4 | 17.6 | 11.8 | 0.0 | 21.8 | 18.3 | 8.9 | 0.0 |
| Traditional | 3.2 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 11.8 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 5.8 | 4.7 |
| Number | 437 | 208 | 113 | 49 | 221 | 176 | 76 | 20 | 845 | 529 | 259 | 85 |
C-Communicable diseases, NC- Non-communicable diseases, GP-Generalised pains/others MP- Maternal and perinatal conditions
Source: Computed by the authors from data collected in the survey for the study.