Availability and distribution of safe abortion services in rural areas: a facility assessment study in Madhya Pradesh, India

Figures & data

Fig. 1 Criteria for classification of delivery care facilities in this study.

Table 1 Distribution of the 96 obstetric care facilities studied

Facilities	Public N=74	Private N=22	Total N=96
CEmOC	1	4	5
Non-CEmOC (CS)	4	18	22
Less than BEmOC	69	0	69
Facilities reporting ability to perform surgical abortion	24	22	46
Facilities where a surgical abortion was performed during the last 3 months			30
CEmOC	1	4	5
Non-CEmOC	4	13	17
Non-BEmOC	8	0	8
Number of surgical abortions performed in the last 6 months	364^a	314	678^a

^aData could not be retrieved for one large public hospital performing surgical abortions routinely.

Table 2 Characteristics of facilities by performance of abortion in the last 3 months and by ownership types of facilities

	Facilities that performed surgical abortion in the last 3 months N=30			Facilities that did not perform surgical abortion in the last 3 months N=66
Facility	Public N=13	Private N=17	Total N=30 (%)	Public N=61 (%)	Private N=5 (%)	Total N=66 (%)
Labour room	13	17	30 (100)	60	5	65 (99)*
Operation theatre	9	17	26 (86)	3	5	8 (12)*
Obstetrician	6	17	23 (76)	2	5	7 (10)*
Non-obstetrician doctor^a	7	0	7 (24)	41	0	41 (62)
Functional manual vacuum aspiration equipment	10	17	27 (90)	8	3	11 (17)*
Functional dilatation and curettage equipment	11	17	28 (93)	19	5	24 (37)*

^aFacilities with a non-specialist doctor if there was no obstetrician, p<0.05.

Fig. 2 Distribution of abortion facilities in three districts of Madhya Pradesh.