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 general service readiness index is a composite measure of the overall capacity of health facilities to provide the essential package of health services. It combines the mean availability indices or scores for the five domains: basic amenities...
The availability of basic equipment at health facilities was assessed based on the existence of the following items: blood pressure apparatus, stethoscope, adult scale, child scale, thermometer, light source, neonatal bag and mask.
Services were generally widely available, although less so for TB and HIV. Within HIV, services were somewhat less available in the Southern and Northern regions, compared with the Western and Eastern regions. HIV services were more widely...
The assessment of basic amenities in the 14 districts was based on the following tracer items: power (grid or generator), improved water source, room with privacy, adequate sanitation facilities, communication equipment, access to computer with...
General malaria services refer to outpatient services during which patients with symptoms that make them “suspect” for malaria are assessed and treated. Patients with symptoms of fever, lethargy, or suspect malaria were identified from the...
Sierra Leone has a network of 1284 public and private health facilities, including 54 hospitals, and is organized into three levels of care. Health facility density is an indicator of service access to outpatient consultations. It shows, on...
ANC services are available at all primary health facilities (CHCs, CHPs and MCHPs). One of every three hospitals and one of every five clinics reported not having ANC services available. A possible explanation is that these are specialised...
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...
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...
Diagnosis and treatment of Non-communicable diseases (Diabetes and cardiovascular services) in which 79% for diabetes was available at the hospitals and 75% for cardiovascular disease were available at the hospitals. CHCs and one of every three...
