| Abstract |
Ethiopian Public Health Institute in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health implemented the 2018 Service
Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) for Ethiopia. SARA was conducted to assist the health sector in assessing
and monitoring service readiness and capacity at region and health facility levels on a regular basis. The objective of the
survey was to generate reliable and regular information on service delivery including service availability, such as the
availability of diagnostic, essential medicines, and infrastructure resources, and on the readiness of health facilities to provide basic health-care interventions relating to maternal health, child health services, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and non-communicable diseases.
The survey covered 764 health facilities in 11 regions across the country.
The Ethiopia SARA 2018 report provides information on a set of tracer indicators of service availability and readiness in the following categories:
1. General service readiness
• Basic amenities
• Basic equipment
• Standard precautions for infection prevention
• Diagnostic capacity
• Essential medicines
2. Service specific availability and readiness
• Family planning
• Antenatal
• Basic Emergency and Essential Obstetric and New born care
• Comprehensive obstetric care Services
• Child immunization service
• Child preventive and curative care service
• Maternal, neonatal and child health
• Non-communicable diseases
• Adolescent health
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis
• HIV counseling and testing
• HIV/AIDS care and support
• Antiretroviral prescription and client management
• Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• Sexually-transmitted infection
• Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD)
• Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Services
• Surgery and blood transfusion
• Emergency
• Intensive Care Unit service |
