Human resource, equipment and supplies in 16 NBUs in the CIN hospitals (H1–H16)
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | H7 | H8 | H9 | H10 | H11 | H12 | H13 | H14 | H15 | H16 | |
| Deliveries per year* | 6387 | 4441 | 6228 | 4581 | 5515 | 2945 | 9939 | 2578 | 6744 | 8641 | 11 404 | 5571 | 5131 | 3653 | 8872 | 21 608 |
| Number of still births (%)* | 180 (3) | 195 (4) | 172 (3) | 150 (3) | 203 (4) | 42 (1) | 213 (2) | 47 (2) | 191 (3) | 231 (3) | 237 (2) | 169 (3) | 87 (2) | 105 (3) | 196 (2) | 521 (2) |
| Number of all NBU admissions per year† | 1250 | 665 | 1765 | 902 | 1516 | 1047 | 2640 | 416 | 996 | 2661 | 2386 | 868 | 1394 | 420 | 2962 | 4769 |
| % of outborn neonates among all NBU admissions per year† | 36 | 17 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 7 |
| Number of MOs dedicated to NBU‡ | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0,5 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 5 |
| Number of Paediatricians dedicated to NBU‡ | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 6 |
| Nurse per day shift§ | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Nurse per night shift§ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Cots in NBU | 17 | 2 | 41 | 23 | 40 | 17 | 39 | 1 | 10 | 53 | 15 | 4 | 32 | 0 | 60 | 50 |
| Babies share cots | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes |
| Incubators¶ | 10 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 7 |
| Babies share incubators | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | Yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes |
| KMC beds** | 10 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| CPAP machine¶ | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Pulse oximeter¶ | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Ability to do cultures†† | limited | no | no | limited | no | limited | limited | no | limited | limited | no | no | limited | no | no | no |
| Birth weight (g) below which stable LBW are admitted in NBU | 2100 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 1800 | 1800 | 2000 | 2000 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 2000 | 1800 |
| Weight required to initiate KMC for stable babies (g) | 1500 | 1200 | N/A | 1500 | 1700 | 1200 | N/A | N/A | 1300 | 1200 | 1200 | 1500 | N/A | 1500 | 1200 | 1400 |
| Discharge weight from KMC unit (g) | 2000 | 2000 | N/A | 1800 | 1900 | 2000 | N/A | N/A | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | 1800 | N/A | 1800 | 1800′ | 1800 |
Deliveries and NBU admissions January 2019–December 2019.
*Deliveries and still births per year (percentage still births): January 2019–December 2019. Source: District Health Information System 2.
†All NBU admissions (inborn and outborn neonates) and % of outborn neonates in NBU per year: January 2019–December 2019. Source: CIN-Neonatal Database.
‡MO/paediatricians dedicated to NBU: fraction time spent in NBU, 0.5 of person implies that the staff work 50% time of 08:00–17:00 working days in the NBU. 50% of the working period: the staff is in the other paediatric wards.
§Nurses: includes neonatal nurses (NNs) in seven hospitals (H4, H14 and H15 had one NN each, H7 and H11 had two NNs and H16 had three NNs).
¶Functional equipment as per March 2020.
**KMC bed: any type of bed used, including ordinary ward bed, for continuous KMC.
††Ability to do culture: all hospitals able to do diagnostic cultures had erratic supplies of reagents, unreliable culture results and blood culture specimens were not accepted in the laboratories at night.
CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure; KMC, kangaroo mother care; LBW, low birth weight; LOA, length of admission; MO, medical officer (excluded MO interns); N/A, not applicable (continuous KMC not practised); NBU, newborn unit.