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.
The performance of health service delivery cannot be assessed if data are not available; it is not sufficient for health facilities to send their monthly reports to the next level. The data on the forms need to be complete to provide the full...
The assessment of TB data element completeness was more comprehensive than for other programme areas because this metric is a standard feature of TB control programme quality monitoring.
The DQR at health facilities depends on the availability of historical source documents to recompile indicator values for comparison with the values reported by the sites for the selected reporting period. However, data archiving is often...
The availability of diagnostic services for cervical cancer was low. Three percent (3%) of the 1284 facilities reported offering the service nationally. Only 2% of 1203 government primary health care facilities, and especially those in rural...
Services for the diagnosis and management of chronic respiratory diseases were available at 15% of the 1284 facilities assessed. The availability by facility type was: 74% of the hospitals; 32% of the CHCs; 27% of the clinics; and 9% and 6% of...
The SARA 2017 assessed the following child preventive and curative care services: preventive and curative care for children under 5 years; malnutrition diagnosis and treatment; vitamin A supplementation; iron supplementation, oral rehydration...
The inclusion criterion for TB patient record review was patients who had completed at least five months of TB treatment. This criterion was selected so that patients would have been on treatment for a sufficient amount of time for the QoC...
Scaling up immunization services is critical to the reduction of child mortality. Ninety-five percent (95%) of facilities reported the provision of child immunization services. Eighty- nine percent (89%) of facilities had infant vaccines; 87% had...
The figure shows the availability of TB services offered by facility in the various health regions. One in every two hospitals and CHCs provide TB services.
HIV testing services refer to patient-initiated testing for HIV. The quality of this service was assessed by reviewing the outpatient service documents.The documentation of key information for HIV test clients was assessed for 410 patients from...
