| Abstract |
In 2016, Ethiopian Public Health Institute and the Ministry of Health collaborated with WHO to implement a survey on
the 2016 Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA). The survey 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 is 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 noncommunicable diseases.
The 2016 Ethiopian SARA survey was a facility based cross sectional survey. A nationally representative sample of 705
health facilities was selected for the assessment, with an oversampling of hospitals. Of these, 228 were hospitals, 165 were health centres, 173 were clinics and 139 were health posts.
The findings from the assessment were stratified by facility type, region, managing authority, and urban/rural areas of the
facility. This report covers the following categories of indicators:
1. General service readiness
• Basic amenities
• Basic equipment
• Standard precautions for infection prevention
• Diagnostic capacity
• Essential medicines
2. Service specific availability and readiness
• Maternal, neonatal and child health
• Basic Emergency and Essential Obstetric and Newborn care (BEm/EONC)
• Family planning
• Antenatal
• Comprehensive obstetric care
• Non-communicable diseases (diabetes disease, cardiovascular, chronic respiratory disease and cervical cancer)
• Adolescent health
• Neglected tropical diseases
• 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 infections
• Surgery and blood transfusion services
• Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) Services |
