Table 1 Training and equipment provided to control groups to strengthen government health service provision to mothers and newborns

All government health facilities

Newborn care equipment availability and function

Equipment

All government health facilities

   Suction bulb

   Weighing scale

   Thermometer

   Ambubag

All primary health centres

   Warm cot

   Resuscitaire

   Phototherapy unit

Zonal hospital

   2 warm cots

   2 resuscitaires

   2 phototherapy units

Consumables

All maternal and child health workers

   2 wiping/wrapping cloths

   Rubber suction bulb

   Silicon tube and mask

   Glass thermometer

   30 ml betadine solution

   30 ml gentian violet solution

   Pictorial manual

Training

All government health workers in the district: essential newborn care

Benefits in sepsis management intervention clusters only

Consumables

All government health facilities in sepsis management intervention clusters:

   Injection gentamicin 80 mg (10 vials)

   Disposable syringe 1 ml (50)

   Tab amoxicillin DT 125 mg (50 tabs)

   Recording forms

Training

All government health workers in sepsis management intervention clusters: community-based sepsis management

All Female community health volunteers in sepsis management intervention clusters: essential newborn care and community-based sepsis management