Details of the calls made to ‘108’ service for pregnant women
| Use of ambulance | Andhra Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh | |||
| Transported using ambulance, n=582, % | Ambulance assigned but not used, n=215, % | Ambulance not assigned, n=74, % | Transported using ambulance, n=615, % | Ambulance not assigned, n=111, % | |
| Relationship of the caller with the pregnant women | |||||
| Husband | 40.0 | 34.4 | 36.5 | 47.2 | 37.8 |
| Parents/parents in-law | 19.5 | 17.7 | 19.0 | 16.3 | 19.8 |
| Siblings/siblings in-law | 21.6 | 26.5 | 21.7 | 16.5 | 19.8 |
| Other relative/friend | 6.7 | 10.7 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 14.4 |
| Community health worker/staff at health centre | 14.8 | 10.2 | 13.5 | 11.2 | 8.1 |
| Others | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Person who suggested to call ‘108’ for ambulance | |||||
| Self/relatives | 84.3 | 88.4 | 76.7 | 84.8 | 94.6 |
| Referred | 15.2 | 10.6 | 20.6 | 15.1 | 5.4 |
| Referred by community health worker | 10.5 | 6.5 | 15.1 | 15.1 | 5.4 |
| Referred by staff at health centre | 4.7 | 4.2 | 5.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Others | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Reason for calling ‘108’ | |||||
| Routine antenatal check-up | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Antenatal with complication | 4.2 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Normal labour pains | 89.8 | 88.4 | 95.9 | 90.7 | 94.6 |
| Labour with complication | 3.2 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 9.1 | 5.4 |
| Postdelivery with complication | 0.0 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Routine postdelivery check-up | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Obstetric emergency at the time of call to ‘108’ | 7.4* | 9.8 | 4.1 | 9.3** | 5.4*** |
Additional 7*, 30** and 2*** answered yes when asked a separate question for the presence of any complication at the time of call and which was a reason for call to ‘108’.