| Abstract |
The Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Directorate of Primary Health Care
Development implemented the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) survey in 2014. The 2014 SARA
aimed to generate reliable and regular information particularly on the availability of services, infrastructure, essential human resources, and the availability of equipment and medicines in health facilities, which allows them to offer basic health interventions in the area of family planning, pediatric health services, essential and comprehensive obstetric care, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, non-communicable diseases, surgical care, and blood transfusion.
This report presents the main results of the survey conducted in a representative sample of 1,555 health facilities at national and provincial levels spread over all 11 provinces of the DRC. The following set of indicators are presented:
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
• Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
• Advanced and state of the art diagnosis
• Basic surgical services
• Blood transfusion services
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