| Abstract |
The Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria implemented a National Health Facility Survey (NHFS) in 2016. The NHFS 2016
builds on the service delivery indicator (SDI) surveys developed by the World Bank and on the Service Availability and
Readiness (SARA) developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The objectives of the 2016 NHFS and subsequent NHFS’s are to: 1) provide insights for managers so they can take specific actions to strengthen the health care system; 2) provide robust, independent, objective, and frequent data by which to track progress in improving the quality of health care in Nigeria; 3) make available information by which to benchmark the performance of States; and 4) provide the quality of care scores needed under Disbursement Linked Indicator (DLI) 2 of the Saving One Million Lives (SOML) Program for Results (PforR) which rewards States for improving the quality of care and health services provided at primary health care level.
The NHFS survey covered 3325 health facilities in 36 states across the country. Data collection started in August, 2016 and was completed in December, 2016
This report presents findings on:
i. Clinical competence of health workers
ii. Provider knowledge of the IMCI protocol for diagnosis and treatment of the sick child
iii. Provider knowledge of protocol for eMTCT during antenatal care
iv. Availability of drugs and equipment
v. Readiness of health facilities to deliver key saving one million lives interventions, sexually transmitted infections and
Tuberculosis services
vi. Management (financial, health care financing, integrated supportive supervision, health management information
systems,etc)
vii. Comparison of selected indicators between performance based financing (PBF) and control states |
