Facility types | Study sample | All facilities* | ||
N | % | N | % | |
Hospitals† | 232 | 9.6 | 293 | 7.7 |
Health centres | 2171 | 89.5 | 3459 | 90.9 |
MCH specialised centres | 22 | 0.9 | 52 | 1.37 |
Ownership | ||||
Public | 2350 | 96.9 | 3662 | 96.3 |
Private | 75 | 3.1 | 142 | 3.7 |
Location | ||||
Rural | 1385 | 57.1 | 2307 | 60.7 |
Urban | 1040 | 42.9 | 1497 | 39.4 |
Infrastructure and staffing | Median | IQR | Median | IQR |
Number of maternity beds | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Total staff‡ | 14 | 10 | 14 | 9 |
Regions | N | % | N | % |
Addis Ababa | 129 | 5.3 | 151 | 4.0 |
Afar | 30 | 1.2 | 77 | 2.0 |
Amhara | 295 | 12.2 | 876 | 23.0 |
Benishangul-Gumuz | 11 | 0.5 | 43 | 1.1 |
Dire Dawa | 19 | 0.8 | 21 | 0.6 |
Gambella | 10 | 0.4 | 27 | 0.7 |
Harari | 8 | 0.3 | 15 | 0.4 |
Oromia | 1267 | 52.3 | 1405 | 36.9 |
SNNPR | 486 | 20.0 | 773 | 20.3 |
Somali | 94 | 3.9 | 161 | 4.2 |
Tigray | 76 | 3.1 | 255 | 6.7 |
Total | 2425 | 3804 |
*Census of all facilities that provided maternal and newborn health services in 2015 in Ethiopia. Surveyed by the 2016 Ethiopian Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care assessment.
†Hospital types include referral, general and primary hospitals. MCH specialised centres also include higher clinics.
‡Total staff includes all health staff currently employed by the facility (medical doctors, obstetricians, gynecologists, pediatricians, neonatologists, emergency surgical officer, midwives, nurses, health officers, anesthesiologists, laboratory technicians, pharmacists and health information technologists).
MCH, maternal and child health; SNNPR, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region.