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Table 2 Health centre staff’s comfort performing EmOC skills

From: Measuring access to emergency obstetric care in rural Zambia

Skill

Staff comfortable with skill

Staff counted

Vaginal delivery

100% (35)

35

Assisted vaginal delivery

5.7% (2)

35

Manual removal of placenta

80.0% (28)

35

Removal of retained products

40.0% (14)

35

Giving IV medications

88.6% (31)

35

Treating infection

100% (35)

35

Treating haemorrhage

82.9% (29)

35

Treating high blood pressure or seizures

51.4% (18)

35