Ransome O J, Roode H, Reinach S G
S Afr Med J. 1986 May 10;69(10):612-4.
A limited survey of provincial and state hospital facilities for children in the RSA was carried out through a questionnaire. Replies were received from 195 hospitals from the provinces of the Cape, Transvaal and Natal as well as from the independent homeland of Ciskei. These hospitals represented 90.3% of the beds in these areas. It was found that there were many more black children per available bed than white (632 v. 416) and that beds for black children had a much higher occupation rate than those for whites (+/- 85% v. +/- 50%). Rural black children were considerably worse off than their urban counterparts. Many hospitals did not have full-time medical officers to look after their paediatric patients. It is recommended that future resources be directed at improving facilities for rural black children and opening lines of communication between existing rural hospitals and the large academic hospitals.
通过问卷调查对南非共和国省级和州级儿童医院设施进行了有限的调查。收到了来自开普省、德兰士瓦省、纳塔尔省以及西斯凯独立家园的195家医院的回复。这些医院占这些地区床位的90.3%。结果发现，每一张可用床位对应的黑人儿童比白人儿童多得多（632比416），而且黑人儿童床位的占用率比白人儿童床位高得多（约85%比约50%）。农村黑人儿童的情况比城市黑人儿童差得多。许多医院没有全职医务人员来照顾儿科患者。建议未来将资源用于改善农村黑人儿童的设施，并打通现有农村医院与大型学术医院之间的沟通渠道。
