Percent patients who received one or more injections during their first visit to:
Health centre; |
25 × 100/60 = 42% |
Hospital B.P.: |
2 × 100/6 = 33% |
+ Other hospitals: |
2+0 × 100/6+3 = 22% |
++ Hospital U.T.: |
2+0+0 × 100/6+3+2= 18% |
Private clinics: |
15 × 100/19 = 79% |
As can be seen from the above table injections are administered most frequently by private medical doctors. The same doctors are working in the hospital in Ban Phang but here it is only 33% of the patients which receive an injection. If one includes the figures from the other public hospitals in the figures from the hospital in Ban Phang, the percentage of patients who receive injections at this level of public health care is as low as 18%. This is a significant difference from the 79% seen in the private sector. The fact that 42% of the patients at the health centre receive an injection is probably due to the social relations between the villagers and the midwife. In addition, the midwives may have been worried that the villagers, if refused an injection, would utilize the services of the informal injection doctor.
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