Table 4 Availability of medicines in pharmacy outlets by WHO categorization
Source | Characteristics | Pharmacies n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Very low | Low | Fairly high | High | |||
Local | Region | Central-Nakawa | 104 (49.3%) | 91 (43.1%) | 16 (7.6%) | 0 (0%) |
Southwestern-Mbarara | 10 (35.7%) | 15 (53.6%) | 3 (10.7%0 | 0 (0%) | ||
West Nile-Arua | 2 (33.3%) | 4 (66.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0%) | ||
Western-Hoima | 5 (20.8%) | 8 (33.3%) | 11 (45.8%) | 0 (0%) | ||
Northern-Lira | 5 (38.5%) | 5 (38.5%) | 3 (23.1%) | 0 (0%) | ||
Eastern-Tororo | 0 (0.0%) | 10 (66.7%) | 5 (33.3%) | 0 (0%) | ||
South eastern-Jinja | 8 (26.7%) | 15 (50.0%) | 7 (23.3%) | 0 (0%) | ||
Overall (average) | 134 (41.0%) | 148 (45.3%) | 45 (13.8%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
Imported | Region | Central-Nakawa | 9 (4.2%) | 33 (15.6%) | 163 (76.9%) | 7 (3.3%) |
Southwestern-Mbarara | 0 (0.0%) | 13 (46.4%) | 15 (53.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
West Nile-Arua | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (16.7%) | 5 (83.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
Western-Hoima | 4 (16.7%) | 13 (54.2%) | 7 (29.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
Northern-Lira | 1 (7.7%) | 1 (7.7%) | 11 (84.6%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
Eastern-Tororo | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (6.7%) | 14 (93.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
South eastern-Jinja | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (13.3%) | 26 (86.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
Overall (average) | 14 (4.3%) | 66 (20.1%) | 241 (73.5%) | 7 (2.1%) | ||