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Medication and equipment availability was highest for acute epilepsy (country estimates ranging from 40% to 95%) and stage 1\u20132 hypertension (28%\u201383%). Availability was low for type 1 diabetes (1%\u201370%), type 2 diabetes (3%\u201357%), asthma (0%\u20137%) and acute presentations of diabetes (0%\u201326%) and asthma (0%\u20134%). Few hospitals had equipment or medications for heart failure (0%\u201332%), rheumatic heart disease (0%\u201323%), hypertensive emergencies (0%\u201364%) or acute minor surgical conditions (0%\u20135%). Data for chronic pain were limited to only two countries. Availability of essential medications and equipment was lower than previous facility-reported service availability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings demonstrate low availability of essential equipment and medications for diverse NCDIs at first-referral level hospitals in eight LICs. 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