Table 2 Institutional characteristics of public health facilities visited by women for delivery services in the Harari region of Eastern Ethiopia from 01 January to 15 February 2022

Levels of facilitiesattended

Health center (HC)

207

48.94

General Hospitals (GH)

76

17.97

Specialized hospitals (SH)

140

33.10

Mode of transportation

Ambulance

240

56.74

Public transport

54

12.77

Private (own means)

19

4.49

Taxi (private)/Bajaj/Gari

102

24.11

Walked

8

1.89

Visited nearest health facility

Yes

181

42.79

No

242

57.21

Reasons of bypassing nearest facility

Referral

173

71.49

Unfriendly staff

22

9.09

Medicine unavailable

17

7.02

Other¹

30

12.40

Reasons of visiting this facility

Close to home

81

44.75

Staff give good advice

38

20.99

Exempted service

31

17.13

Other²

31

20.13

Obtaining medicines and/or diagnostic services from the visited facility

Yes (all)

240

56.74

Yes (some)

155

36.64

No

28

6.62

Reasons for not getting some medicine/drugs

Drugs not available

121

78.06

Other³

34

21.94

Reasons for not getting medicine at all

Wanted to buy drug from elsewhere

22

78.57

Did not have enough money

6

21.43

Providers of drugs and pharmaceuticals

By health facilities

267

63.12

Purchase from outside

50

11.82

Both

106

25.06