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Table 1 Delivery workload for skilled birth attendants and doctors: actual rate of facility-based deliveries and full coverage (all births)

From: Removing financial barriers to access reproductive, maternal and newborn health services: the challenges and policy implications for human resources for health

 

Births per SBA

Births per doctor

Attended deliveries per SBA

Attended deliveries per doctor

Ghana 2010/11

29

283

13

127

Nepal 2011

309

525

132

224

Sierra Leone

1202

1048

320

279

Zambia, narrow

185

1317

73

515

Zambia, broad

133

52

Zimbabwe

18

475

12

313

  1. SBA skilled birth attendant.