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Table 4 Health infrastructure availability in study villages

From: Unlicensed medical practitioners in tribal dominated rural areas of central India: bottleneck in malaria elimination

Variables

(N = 53)

n (%)

Health Infrastructure available in the villages

 Aagnawadi (ICDS) centre

52 (98.1)

 Aaganwadi (ICDS) assistant

48 (90.6)

 Aaganwadi (ICDS) worker

48 (90.6)

 Aaganwadi (ICDS) is functioning regularly

48 (90.6)

 ASHA worker is residing in the village

45 (84.9)

 Health sub-centre available in the village

10 (18.9)

 Nurse is residing in the village

6 (11.3)

 Health committee is functioning in the village

10 (18.9)

Distance of Health facilities from the village

 PHCs (mean ± SD) km

13.2 ± 1.9

 CHCs (mean ± SD) km

28.6 ± 10.1

Distance of bus stop (mean ± SD) km

6.4 ± 3.6

Vehicle available in emergency in the villages

35 (66.0)