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Table 2 Percentage of facilities with a maternity waiting home according to type of infrastructure, by region, facility type, managing authority, and urban/rural location

From: Distribution of maternity waiting homes and their correlation with perinatal mortality and direct obstetric complication rates in Ethiopia

 

No. of facilities

Facilities with a MWH

n (%)

Type of infrastructure

n (%)

Stand-alone MWH

Room within facility

National

3804

2001 (52.6)

765 (20.1)

1236 (32.5)

Region

 Tigray

255

93 (36.5)

23 (9.0)

70 (27.5)

 Afar

77

5 (6.5)

1 (1.3)

4 (5.2)

 Amhara

876

631 (72.1)

210 (24.0)

421 (48.1)

 Oromia

1405

792 (56.4)

326 (23.2)

466 (33.2)

 Somali

161

11 (6.8)

5 (3.1)

6 (3.7)

 Benishangul-Gumuz

43

11 (25.6)

0 (0.0)

11 (25.6)

 SNNP

773

444 (57.5)

200 (25.9)

244 (31.6)

 Gambella

27

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

 Harari

15

1 (6.7)

0 (0.0)

1 (6.7)

 Addis Ababa

151

11 (7.3)

1 (0.7)

10 (6.6)

 Dire Dawa

21

2 (9.5)

0 (0.0)

2 (9.5)

Facility type

 Hospitals & MCH specialty centers

316

58 (18.3)

19 (6.0)

39 (12.3)

 Health centers & clinics

3488

1943 (55.7)

746 (21.4)

1196 (34.3)

Managing authority

 Public

3662

1984 (54.2)

758 (20.7)

1196 (33.5)

 Private, for-profit

83

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

 Private, not-for-profit

59

17 (28.8)

7 (11.9)

10 (16.9)

Location

 Urban

1497

724 (48.4)

290 (19.4)

434 (29.0)

 Rural

2307

1277 (55.4)

476 (20.6)

801 (34.7)