| Abstract |
The Ministry of Health through the Strategic and Development Office (SDO), and National Institute of Statistics (INS)
in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) implemented a second edition of the Guinea Service
Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA), Data Quality Assessment (DQA) and Quality of Care (QoC) in 2017.
The 2017 SARA aimed to generate reliable and regular information on the availability of health services (the availability of
infrastructure, essential human resources) and the operational capacity of health facilities to deliver basic family planning
interventions, pediatric health services, essential and comprehensive obstetric care, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and non-communicable diseases. The objective of the DQA survey was to contribute to improving the quality of health data at the health facility level. The SARA survey covered all health facilities whereas representative samples were used for the DQR and QoC surveys.
This report provides information on the following set of tracer indicators which determine the level of availability and
operational capacity of health services :
1. General service availability
• Health infrastructure density
• Health workforce density
• Service utilization
2.General service readiness
• Basic amenities and comfort elements
• Basic equipment
• Standard precautions for infection prevention
• Diagnostic capacity
• Essential medicines
3. Service specific availability and readiness
• Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH)
• Family planning
• Adolescent health
• Immunization services
• Preventive and curative care services for the child
• Adolescent health services
• Malaria
• HIV/AIDS counseling and testing services
• Tuberculosis
• HIV/AIDS care and support services
• PMTCT
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular diseases
• Chronic respiratory diseases (CRI)
• Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
• Basic surgical services
• Blood transfusion |
