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Table 3 Referral of sick children at private health care facilities

From: Referral of children seeking care at private health facilities in Uganda

Children with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria seen at the private facilities

Registered drug shops

N = 170

Private clinics

N = 59

Pharmacies

N = 12

Proportion of health facilities who reported that they referred sick children in the last 2 weeks

45.3% (77)

40.7% (24)

27 (3)

Mean number of sick children referred in the last 2 weeks (SD)

2 (3)

2 (1)

2 (1)

Place where children were referred to

Drug shop

1 (1.3)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Private clinic

5 (6.5)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Health centre

43 (55.8)

11 (45.8)

1 (33.3)

Hospital

28 (33.4)

13 (54.2)

2 (66.7)

Constraints encountered in referring children

Patients don’t comply

93 (54.7)

37 (62.7)

5 (41.7)

Referral facilities are too far

27 (15.9)

10 (17.0)

1 (8.3)

Patients don’t have money

93 (54.7)

37 (62.7)

5 (41.7)

There are no drugs at the referral facility

35 (20.6)

17 (28.8)

1 (8.3)