| Abstract |
The Ministry of Health (MoH) in collaboration with the World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean implemented the 2017 Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) for Libya. The 2017 SARA was a systematic survey which aimed to provide reliable information on availability and readiness of health services delivery.
The SARA 2017 survey covered 1656 public health facilities in Libya. Data collection for the hospital survey was conducted from August to December 2016, and the primary health care (PHC) level data collection started in September 2016 and ended in February 2017. Additional data on service utilization was provided by the Libyan MoH, while the population estimates for 2017 for Libya’s 22 districts were provided by the Libyan Bureau of Statistics.
This report covers the following categories of indicators:
1. General service availability
• Health infrastructure density
• Health workforce density
• Service utilization
2. General service readiness
• Basic amenities
• Basic equipment
• Standard precautions for prevention of infections
• Diagnostic capacity
• Essential medicines
• Laboratory equipment capacity
3. Service specific availability and readiness
• Antenatal care
• Basic obstetric care
• Child immunization
• Preventive and curative care for children under fiive
• Family planning
• Tuberculosis
• Adolescents health
• Counselling and testing for HIV
• Preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
• Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• Leishmaniasis
• Brucellosis
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic respiratory diseases
• Cervical and breast cancer
• Mental health care
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