Table 1 Peripheral hospital characteristics
S/N | Health facility name | Number of students | Doctors available | Total | Official bed capacity | Average daily bed occupancy | Average daily OPD attendance | Distance (km) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Specialists | Â | |||||||||||
Obs tetrics & gynaecology | Paediatrics | Surgery | Internal medicine | General practitioners | ||||||||
1 | Mawenzi regional referral hospital | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 300 | 164 | 97 | 5 |
2 | St. Joseph designated district hospital | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 150 | 140 | 200 | 8 |
3 | Kibosho designated district hospital | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 180 | 60 | 200 | 10 |
4 | St. Elizabeth hospital | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 87 | 90 | 80 |
5 | Mt. Meru regional referral hospital | 27 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 18 | 500 | 200 | 180 | 80 |
6 | Tanganyika Planting Company (TPC) hospital | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 65 | 200 | 18 |
7 | Same district hospital | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 136 | 70 | 80 | 105 |
8 | Gonja hospital | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 67 | 50 | 50 | 165 |