Prescribing indicators assessed | Total medicines or encounters | Average or percent | WHO Optimal Value [1] | Standard derived for Africa region [2] |
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Average number of medicines per encounter | 1056 | 1.76 | 1.6–1.8 | < 2 |
Percentage of encounter with antibiotics | 318 | 53.0% | 20–26.8 | 45.9 |
Percentage of encounter with injection | 47 | 7.80% | 13.4–24.1 | 28.4 |
Percentage of medicines prescribed by generic | 878 | 83.14% | 100 | 65.1 |
Percentage of medicines from essential medicine list | 1039 | 98.39% | 100 | 89 |