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 systems assessment was also conducted at the DHMT office for each district in the country. However, results are only available from nine districts. The results for the nine districts are presented in Table
The table shows the monthly district values for “Received results and post-test counselling.” Extreme outliers are shaded red. As can be seen in the table, the value for Kenema district in December 2016 was approximately four times larger than...
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Diagnostic capacity is key for health facilities to offer services. During the SARA+, health facilities were assessed on their capacity to conduct the following eight diagnostic tests on site: haemoglobin, blood glucose, malaria diagnostic...
The availability of essential medicines is a key ingredient for the delivery of the essential package of health services. The essential medicines domain consists of 24 tracer items covering the package of essential services and programmes.
The availability of core health workers is a key component of the essential package of health services. An imbalance of health workers, in terms of absolute scarcity and maldistribution across the districts, including rural and urban distribution...
Records for ANC and for delivery and newborn care were reviewed for key elements of ANC services, delivery services, and immediate postpartum care. Six hundred fifty-two (652) records at 132 facilities were reviewed for women receiving ANC and...
Standard precautions for infection prevention are key to ensure the implementation of infection prevention practices at health facilities. The percentage of health facilities with capacity and that were practicing infection prevention was...
A comparison of the general service readiness index and domain scores across the years 2011, 2012 and 2017 reveals that the scores improved from 48% in 2011 to 56% in 2017. Basic amenities and standard precautions markedly improved over the years...
