Health systems’ preparedness to provide post-abortion care: assessment of health facilities in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Nigeria

Table 6 Capability to provide comprehensive PAC signal functions among secondary and tertiary facilities^a

	Burkina F (%)		Kenya (%)		Nigeria (%)
	Secondary (N = 56)	Tertiary (N = 4)	Secondary (N = 38)	Tertiary (N = 4)	Secondary (N = 124)	Tertiary (N = 11)
Remove retained products of conception*	98.2	100	100	100	91.1	100
Administer parenteral antibiotics*	100	100	100	100	95.2	100
Administer parenteral uterotonics*	100	100	90.9	100	90.4	100
Administer intravenous fluids†	100	100	100	100	97.4	100
Has vehicle with fuel to conduct referral of patients needing †‡	80.4	100	89.4	100	63.9	88.9
Provide modern, short and long acting family planning method†	83.9	100	87.9	100	79.7	100
Administer a blood transfusion*	48.2	100	61.0	100	85.3	100
Undertake major abdominal surgery (laparotomy/hysterectomy)*	37.5	75	43.3	100	48.2	100
Has staff capable of doing caesarean sections daily	96.4	100	97.4	100	79.8	100

Key: *Assessed on the basis of facility reporting if they had ever provided the service; ^†assessed on the basis of the availability and/or functionality of a given item (drug/equipment) at time of survey; ^‡we assumed that staff who were capable of doing caesarean sections were also capable of doing normal deliveries, and therefore did not need to include this factors in comprehensive capability for PAC
^a All data are weighted

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