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Table 7 The number of surgical workforces in a 90-day interval, September 2020 to May 2021, Ethiopia

From: Access to surgical care in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional retrospective data review

Health care facilities level

Number of available surgical workforces in a 90-day interval

Surgeons (General, neurosurgeons, and orthopaedic surgeons)

N (%)

Anaesthesiologists or anaesthesia care providers

N (%)

Obstetrician

N (%)

IESO

N (%)

Nurse anaesthetists

N (%)

Total

N

Health center OR block

0 (0%)

19 (25.12%)

0

18 (5.44%)

2 (0.85%)

39 (1.7%)

Primary hospital

47 (7.2%)

126 (16.7%)

16 (4.79%)

194 (58.6%)

79 (33.47%)

462 (19.9%)

Generalized hospital

123 (18.7%)

157 (20.82%)

76 (22.75%)

100 (30.2%)

94 (39.8%)

550 (23.8%)

Specialized hospital

336 (51.14%)

364 (48.27%)

165 (49.4%)

10 (3.02%)

14 (5.93%)

889 (38.5%)

Private hospital

151 (22.98%)

88 (11.67%)

77 (23.05%)

9 (2.7%)

47 (19.9%)

372 (16.1%)

Total

657 (100%)

754 (100%)

334 (100%)

331 (100%)

236 (100%)

2,312 (100%)

  1. This table shows the number of surgical workforces available in the evaluated health care facilities in a 90 day interval, from September 2020 to May 2021, disaggregated by level of health care, Ethiopia