Table 2

Descriptive statistics (n=1466) of survey respondents stratified by medicine, disinfectant and PPE shortages

Variable	Levels	Sub-levels (no of COVID-19 dedicated hospital beds)	Responses		Medicine shortage (Yes)		Disinfectant shortage (Yes)			PPE shortage (Yes)
Variable	Levels	Sub-levels (no of COVID-19 dedicated hospital beds)	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Date	December		500	34.11	295	20.12	282	19.24	300	20.46
	November		507	34.58	304	20.74	331	22.58	362	24.69
	October		246	16.78	123	8.39	170	11.60	189	12.89
	September		213	14.53	139	9.48	145	9.89	154	10.50
No of beds	101–500		648	44.20	355	24.22	407	27.76	446	30.42
	501–1000		394	26.88	246	16.78	263	17.94	271	18.49
	<100		115	7.84	59	4.02	56	3.82	71	4.84
	>1000		252	17.19	164	11.19	157	10.71	175	11.94
	MV		57	3.89	37	2.52	45	3.07	42	2.86
Type of hospital	General hospital		821	56.00	502	34.24	537	36.63	567	38.68
	Teaching/university		420	28.65	259	17.67	251	17.12	278	18.96
	Other		97	6.62	47	3.21	52	3.55	68	4.64
	Psychiatric		62	4.23	23	1.57	49	3.34	47	3.21
	Oncology		30	2.05	16	1.09	18	1.23	20	1.36
	Geriatric		22	1.50	11	0.75	14	0.95	17	1.16
	Paediatric		14	0.95	3	0.20	7	0.48	8	0.55
If COVID-19 dedicated	No (n=302)	NA	302	100.00	140	46.36	198	65.56	219	72.52
	Partly (n=693)	>50	248	35.80	180	26.00	170	24.50	177	25.50
		26–50	153	22.10	92	13.30	104	15.00	110	15.90
		6–25	194	28.00	106	15.30	120	17.30	139	20.10
		<5	63	9.10	26	3.80	38	5.50	46	6.60
		Don’t know	34	4.90	22	3.20	27	3.90	27	3.90
		MV	1	0.10	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
	Yes (n=471)	>50	299	63.50	209	44.40	185	39.30	193	41.00
		26–50	75	15.90	40	8.50	36	7.60	37	7.90
		6–25	67	14.20	35	7.40	36	7.60	40	8.50
		<5	7	1.50	1	0.20	2	0.40	2	0.40
		Don’t know	21	4.50	9	1.90	10	2.10	13	2.80
		MV	2	0.40	1	0.20	2	0.40	2	0.40

For the three types of shortages (medicines, disinfectants and PPE), only the number (n) and percentage (%) of ‘Yes’ responses were reported. Regarding the ‘If COVID-19 dedicated’ field, the percentages reported for each sub-level about the number of COVID-19 dedicated hospital beds are estimated on the reference number for each of the three levels (No, Partly, Yes).
MV, missing values; NA, not applicable; PPE, personal protective equipment.