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Table 1 Maternal and perinatal health, Haydom Lutheran Hospital with outreach RCHS and PMTCT clinics, Tanzania, 2006

From: Achieving progress in maternal and neonatal health through integrated and comprehensive healthcare services – experiences from a programme in northern Tanzania

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%

  1. Sources: [15, 16, 29]