Emergency, anaesthetic and essential surgical capacity in the Gambia
Adam Iddriss, Nestor Shivute, Stephen Bickler, Ramou Cole-Ceesay, Bakary Jargo, Fizan Abdullah & Meena Cherian
Volume 89, Number 8, August 2011, 565-572
Table 2. Percentage availability of infrastructure and health resources in the Gambia, 2009
| Resource | Total |
Public |
Private |
P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 17) | (n = 11) | (n = 6) | ||
| Medical records | 88.9 | 91.7 | 83.3 | 1 |
| Laboratory | 77.8 | 75.0 | 83.3 | 1 |
| Oxygen | 77.8 | 66.7 | 100 | 0.245 |
| Functioning anaesthesia machine | 70.6 | 63.6 | 83.3 | 0.6 |
| Operational power generator | 52.9 | 25.0 | 100 | 0.009 |
| Running water | 50.0 | 25.0 | 100 | 0.009 |
| Postoperative care area | 50.0 | 33.3 | 83.3 | 0.131 |
| Blood bank | 47.1 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 1 |
| Electricity | 44.4 | 16.7 | 100 | 0.002 |
| X-ray machine | 38.9 | 41.7 | 33.3 | 1 |
| Emergency care area | 33.3 | 16.7 | 66.7 | 0.107 |