Table 1

Maternal and perinatal health, Haydom Lutheran Hospital with outreach RCHS and PMTCT clinics, Tanzania, 2006

Indicators
Haydom Lutheran Hospital [29]

Inpatients
11082
Outpatients
50129
Health facility deliveries
3201
Home deliveries with nurse midwife, RCHS aides or traditional birth attendant
13
Pregnancy complications – in/outpatients
576
Caesarean sections and ruptured uterus operations
534 (525 + 9)
Maternal deaths – direct/indirect
19 (2/17)
Number of RCHS clinics (static/mobile)
1/27
Total women examined – RCHS
28113
Total children examined – RCHS
83007
PMTCT – women tested for HIV at RCHS clinics
5397
Estimated live births catchment area HLH [15,16]
11918
Percent estimated live births HIV tested in catchment area
45.3%
PMTCT – pregnant women tested
3884
PMTCT – lactating women tested
1513
HIV positive pregnant women
32
HIV positive lactating mothers
27
Uptake of HIV positive women in PMTCT-plus programme
42%
Cumulative number HIV positive women from RCHS/PMTCT included in care and treatment programme (Sep 2003–Dec 2006)
83
Cumulative number of HIV positive patients in the HAART care and treatment programme (Sep 2003–Dec 2006)
808
Deaths from HIV/AIDS
32
Total malaria cases (in/outpatients)
8876 (2481/6395)
Total malaria deaths (% deaths among all inpatients malaria cases)
156 (6.3%)
Total hospital deaths (% malaria deaths of all deaths)
752 (20.7%)
Total cerebral malaria cases
158
Total cerebral malaria deaths (% cerebral malaria deaths of all cerebral malaria cases)
51 (32.3%)
% Cerebral malaria deaths of total malaria deaths
20.7%

Sources: [15,16,29]

Evjen-Olsen et al. International Journal for Equity in Health 2009 8:27   doi:10.1186/1475-9276-8-27