Care for perinatal illness in rural Nepal: a descriptive study with cross-sectional and qualitative components

Table 2 Delivery care and consultation findings from the survey questionnaire

Delivery care	Frequency [%]
Place of delivery [n = 8798]
Home	8238 [94]
Hospital	435 [5]
Birth attendant* [n-8798]
Mother-in-law	3476 [40]
Doctor, nurse, auxiliary nurse midwife, health assistant	563 [6]
Traditional birth attendant	440 [5]
No attendant at all	1030 [12]
Consultation for recalled illness
Place of consultation* [n = 3557]
Traditional healer	2748 [77]
District hospital	353 [10]
Primary Health Centre	132 [4]
Health Post	176 [5]
Sub-Health Post	138 [4]
Any government primary health care institution	443 [12]
Any government health care institution	760 [21]
Private clinic	151 [4]
Medicine shop	115 [3]
Time from onset of illness to any treatment [n = 3557]
> 6 hours	1108 [31]
> 24 hours	906 [25]
> 48 hours	706 [20]
Time from onset of illness to health facility consultation [n = 760]
> 12 hours	531 [70]
> 24 hours	454 [60]
> 48 hours	361 [48]
Maternal medication [n = 3557]
Allopathic	1087 [31]
Traditional	354 [10]
Allopathic and traditional	96 [3]

*These figures allow the possibility of multiple attendants or consultations, which means that they do not sum to the denominator. This has been taken into account in the presentation of grouped frequencies.

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