An assessment of hospital maternal health services in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional survey

Table 2 Maternal healthcare staff at the hospitals per 10,000 population

Facility	Population per district/region	General Medical Doctors		Specialist		Non-Physician Clinicians		Anaesthetists		Nurses		University trained nurses		Midwives		Degree midwives		Enrolled Nurses		Allied Professionals
Facility	Population per district/region	N	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000	N	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000	N	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000	n	Per 10,000
A	2,479,461*	4	0.02	0	0.00	0	0.00	4	0.02	1	0.00	0	0.00	15	0.06	4	0.02	0	0.00	0	0.00
B	371,351*	5	0.13	0	0.00	10	0.27	4	0.11	1	0.03	0	0.00	67	1.80	4	0.11	11	0.30	4	0.11
C	199,592	5	0.25	0	0.00	0	0.00	3	0.15	3	0.15	0	0.00	6	0.30	0	0.00	3	0.15	0	0.00
D	123,854*	1	0.08	0	0.00	3	0.24	2	0.16	0	0.00	0	0.00	12	0.97	1	0.08	0	0.00	0	0.00
E	139,283*	2	0.14	0	0.00	0	0.00	2	0.14	0	0.00	0	0.00	26	1.87	1	0.07	4	0.29	0	0.00
F	112,331	3	0.27	0	0.00	0	0.00	2	0.18	0	0.00	0	0.00	8	0.71	1	0.09	3	0.27	0	0.00
G	141,584	1	0.07	0	0.00	0	0.00	1	0.07	3	0.21	0	0.00	8	0.57	0	0.00	5	0.35	0	0.00
H	108,816	1	0.09	0	0.00	2	0.18	2	0.18	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	6	0.55	2	0.18	0	0.00
I	65,706*	2	0.30	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	3	0.46	0	0.00	7	1.07	2	0.30	3	0.46	0	0.00
J	111,259	2	0.18	0	0.00	0	0.00	2	0.18	3	0.27	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Total	3,853,237	26	0.07	0	0.00	15	0.04	22	0.06	14	0.04	0	0.00	149	0.39	19	0.05	31	0.08	4	0.01

*Population data provided from the 2010 Census report (Ghana Statistical Service [GSS], 2010)
* Further demarcation of regional and district boundaries was done between 2008 and 2019, adding two new regions from the original Northern region and ten new districts within the original Northern region. However, these newly created districts/regions do not have district/regional hospitals, and the population continue to be served by the existing health facilities