Conflict and Health

Table 7 Availability of staff for emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) services per level of facilities and per study health zones (HZ) in the North-Kivu Province of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2017

From: The status of emergency obstetric and newborn care in post-conflict eastern DRC: a facility-level cross-sectional study

Health zones and facilities	Staff for EmONC services
Health zones and facilities	All	Nurses	Midwives*	Medical doctors
Overall	519	325	64 ^a	130
				Specialists†	General practitioners
RF (n = 18)	384	204 (62.8^‡)	50	17	113
HC (n = 24)	135	121 (37.2^‡)	14	NA	NA
Median number per facility	_	6 (IQR 4–8)	2 (IQR 1.5–4)	3.5^‡ (IQR 2–10)
Goma	198	96	25 ^b	77
RF (n = 6)	163	63 (65.6^‡)	23	16	61
HC (n = 5)	35	33 (34.4^‡)	2	NA	NA
Median number per facility	_	7 (IQR 6–12)	4 (IQR 2–4)	9.5^‡ (IQR 8–13)
Karisimbi	150	102	19 ^c	29
RF (n = 6)	105	63 (61.8^‡)	13	0	29
HC (n = 8)	45	39 (38.2^‡)	6	NA	NA
Median number per facility	_	7 (IQR 5–9)	2 (IQR 1–3)	3^‡ (IQR 2–8)
Rutshuru	171	127	20 ^d	24
RF (n = 6)	116	78 (61.4^‡)	14	1	23
HC (n = 11)	55	49 (38.6^‡)	6	NA	NA
Median number per facility	_	4 (IQR 3–5)	2 (IQR 1.5–3.5)	2^‡ (IQR 2–3)

HC: health centres, RF: referral facilities (referral hospitals and referral health centres), IQR: interquartile range
^‡Percentages of nurses in the study health zones per level of facilities
^‡Obstetricians and paediatricians
*Not available in 18 facilities (4 HCs in Goma, 5HCs in Karisimbi, 2 RHCs and 7 HCs in Rutshuru)
^a RF (n = 16), HC (n = 8), ^b RF (n = 6), HC (n = 1)7, ^c RF (n = 6), HC (n = 3), ^d RF (n = 4) HC (n = 4)
^‡In RH and RHC only
NA: not applicable, _: not calculated

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