The Ministry of Health & Sanitation (MoHS) believes that access to sound health is a human right, its vision is to ensure a functional national health system delivering efficient, high quality health care services that are accessible, equitable and affordable for everybody in Sierra Leone and the overall goal is to maintain and improve the health of its citizens.
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Health facilities should maintain records of data quality control efforts so that they can track progress toward goals and objectives for improving data quality. It shows the results of DQR questions assessing whether written documentation of...
Standard guidelines on reporting help ensure uniformity in data collection, compilation and reporting. Such standardization helps ensure better data quality. It shows the distribution of responses for indicators on the availability of written...
Data quality checking is an important aspect of data quality assurance because errors are common, but easily prevented given sufficient vigilance. It shows the results for data quality checks by relevant stratifiers. Hospitals were more likely to...
Responsibility for recording service delivery was assigned to a specific staffer at 72% of sampled facilities. At 55% of facilities, staff had received the appropriate training. At a similar percentage of sites (56%), staff were reported to have...
Standard indicator definitions ensure that all sites are collecting comparable information. The distribution of the use of standard indicator definitions by programme area was presented. However, only 50% of the sampled hospitals reported using...
The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL), together with its development partners, conducted the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey (2019 SLDHS)
The document provides a summary report of the 2017 Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) Plus in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) conducted in 2017 is the first health services...
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone had the worst death toll since the disease was diagnosed in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It also had far-reaching socio-economic consequences. It was unprecedented in terms of...
Improving their quality requires consistent reminding of service providers about the service components that they are expected to provide, and monitoring (for example, through supervision) that service provision is consistently documented.
