Characteristics of the participating hospitals and maternity wards before the COVID-19 pandemic
| Country | Guinea | Nigeria | Tanzania | Uganda | ||
| Hospital name | Hôpital National Ignace Deen (Ignace Deen National Hospital) | Hôpital Regional de Mamou (Mamou Regional Hospital) | Lagos University Teaching Hospital | Muhimbili National Hospital | Kawempe National Referral Hospital | Mulago Specialised Women’s and Neonatal Hospital |
| Abbreviation | HNID | HRM | LUTH | MNH | KNRH | MSWNH |
| Hospital | ||||||
| Owner/operating authority | Ministry of Health | Ministry of Health | Federal Government of Nigeria | Government of Tanzania | Government of Uganda | Government of Uganda |
| Year of establishment | 1892 | 1908 | 1961 | 1910 | 1962 | 2019 |
| Total number of beds | 467 | 90 | 761 | 1500 | 170 | 425 |
| Hospital designation | Tertiary teaching hospital | Regional hospital | Tertiary teaching hospital | Tertiary teaching hospital | Maternity/women’s care and neonatal care | Maternity/women’s care and neonatal care |
| Private services offered | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maternity services and infrastructure | ||||||
| Routine outpatient antenatal care | No (only for complicated cases) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Childbirth | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Routine outpatient postnatal care | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Caesarean sections | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Private maternity services offered | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Service outputs (pre-COVID-19) | ||||||
| Number of outpatient antenatal visits (annual for 2019) | – | 1148 | 5860 | 23 048 | 35 169 | 5216 |
| Number of births (annual for 2019) | 5927 | 3468 | 933 | 7385 | 21 778 | 1163 |