Table 3

Treatment and services received by postabortion care clients, Prospective Morbidity Survey

	Total		Facility type				P value
	Weighted N	%	Central and provincial hospitals (%)	District hospitals (%)	Primary health centre (%)	Private and NGO facilities (%)	P value
Patient stayed in facility >24 hours	577	46	43	61	0	20	0.00
Main procedure used in management of patient’s condition*							0.00
D&C/D&E†	760	75	74	78	0	67
Manual/electric vacuum aspiration	125	12	17	6	0	14
Misoprostol	113	11	9	12	100	17
Oxytocin	21	2	0	4	0	2
Procedure performed primarily by:							0.00
Doctor‡	960	91	99	83	0	87
Nurse/midwife/ clinical officer	93	9	1	17	100	13
Received intravenous fluids	848	67	70	71	36	46	0.01
Antibiotics provided	1232	97	96	99	85	98	0.01
Pain medication provided	960	78	79	75	64	91	0.08
Contraceptive services
Patient counselled on contraception at discharge							0.00
Yes	1154	92	88	96	100	91
No	76	6	10	2	0	8
Not discharged yet	25	2	2	2	0	1
Patient received modern contraception at discharge§							0.01
Yes	535	43	26	55	61	61
No	650	52	67	40	39	37
Don’t know	69	6	7	5	0	2

*Out of women who obtained procedures (weighted n=1018).
†D&C/D&E includes: dilatation and curettage (D&C) (12%), evacuation by sharp curettage (50.5%), digital evacuation (1.5%) and forceps evacuation (10.4%).
‡Includes Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (34%) and medical officers/GPs/senior resident medical officers (57%).
§The definition of ‘modern’ contraception was not included in the question; so it is possible that providers may have interpreted this term slightly variably.
D&C, Dilation and curettage, D&E, Dilatation and evacuation; GPs, general practitioners; NGO, non-governmental organisation.