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Availability of Antenatal Care
Table 3.15 shows the availability of antenatal care as well as the number of days the
services are offered per week according to the type of facility, managing authority, and
region.
Overall, 89 percent of health facilities offer ANC services and among those providing
these services, 93 percent offer them at least five days a week. Among the facilities that
provide ANC services, these services are notably more consistently offered in the public than
in the private sector. Indeed, 9 percent of the public facilities provide ANC services at least
five days a week compared to 63 percent for the private sector.
Table 3.15
Availability of antenatal care services
Among all facilities, the percentage offering ANC services and, among facilities offering ANC services, the percentages offering the service
on the indicated number of days per week by background characteristics, Senegal SCSPA 2012–2013
Background characteristics
Percentage of
facilities
offering ANC
Number of
facilities
Percentage of facilities offering ANC where
ANC services are offered the indicated
number of days per week 1
1–2 days 3–4 days 5 or more days
Tetanus toxoid
vaccine every
day ANC is
offered
Number of
facilities
offering ANC
Facility type
Hospital 76 17 0 8 92 58 13
Health center 79 30 9 2 87 94 24
Health post 91 317 5 1 93 96 287
Managing authority
Public 95 302 2 1 96 98 287
Private 60 62 28 5 63 70 37
Region
Dakar 80 71 4 1 94 84 57
Diourbel 98 25 5 0 95 98 24
Fatick 100 22 12 0 88 100 22
Kaffrine 91 14 0 0 100 100 13
Kaolack 92 23 6 0 94 90 22
Kédougou 75 9 7 0 93 100 7
Kolda 73 17 0 4 96 89 13
Louga 90 23 0 0 100 98 20
Matam 100 17 6 0 94 100 17
Saint Louis 91 29 0 0 100 100 26
Sédhiou 97 12 0 12 88 100 11
Tambacounda 80 24 4 0 96 100 19
Thiès 95 48 12 4 81 92 45
Ziguinchor 91 29 5 0 90 100 27
Total 89 364 5 1 93 95 324
Health hut 29 74 5 0 13 NA 21
NA = Not applicable
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Some facilities offer ANC services less often than one day per week, andsothepercentages may add to less than 100 percent.
Availability of Essential Medicines for ANC
Table 3.16 presents the availability of essential medicines and tetanus toxoid vaccine
for ANC in the facilities that offer ANC services.
Iron tablets (85 percent), folic acid (78 percent), and tetanus toxoid vaccine (85
percent) were observed to be available in more than three-quarters of the surveyed facilities
that offer ANC services. However, these medicines and products are far less available in
hospitals and private facilities offering ANC services.
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