The dominance of the private sector in the provision of emergency obstetric care: studies from Gujarat, India

Table 4 Staff and facilities per district compared against WHR 2005 benchmarks^a

Indicator	Districts and number of births per year
	Sabarkantha (births: 67,965)			Dahod (births: 64,222).			Surendranaga (births: 67,965).
	Number of facilities or staff			Number of facilities or staff			Number of facilities or staff
	Current	WHR 2005	Deficit	Current	WHR 2005	Deficit	Current	WHR 2005	Deficit
CEmOC	15	19	4	5	18	12	3	11	8
BEmOC	1	38	73	0	36	36	2	22	20
Less–than-BEmOC + C-sections	41	n.a	n.a	12	n.a	n.a	19	n.a	n.a
Midwives (nurses)^b	103	378	275	98	357	259	51	224	173
Doctors (all)	126	57	0	55	54	1	59	34	0

^aWHR 2005 benchmarks recommend the following: a.20 midwifes and three part-time doctors per 3600 births and b. one CEmOC facility and one to two BEmOC per 3600 births. ^bIncludes nurses and auxiliary nurses. Assuming all births delivered by this cadre