Prevention and care of paediatric HIV infection in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: knowledge, attitudes and practices of the caregivers

Table 1 Characteristics of study site hospitals in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2011 [26]

	Physicians	Pharmacists	Nurses	Mid-wives	Beds in paediatric wards	Total beds in wards	Bed occupancy rate (%)
Yalgado Ouédraogo university hospital	128	13	113	35	112	733	88.9
Chrales De Gaulle peadiatric university hospital	23	3	57	0	143	143	61.2
Boulmiougou district hospital	10	3	80	41	35	62	52.3
Nongr-Massom district hospital	13	1	40	26	24	95	0.7

Bed occupancy rate = number of days of inpatient care/number of bed days available
Number of days of inpatient care = total number of days in which each patient occupied a bed in a health facility over the year
Number of bed days available = number of available beds in the health facility X the number of days in the year

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