| Abstract |
The Directorate of Statistics of the Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics (INS)
implemented Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) survey in 2015. The overall objective of the 2015
SARA survey was to assess the availability and operational capacity of health services throughout the country. Specifically, the 2015 SARA survey
(i) evaluated the availability of health services in the facilities at all levels of care measuring the availability of basic
equipment;
(ii) evaluated the availability of drugs and other medical products;
(iii) assessed the availability of treatment guidelines and diagnostic tools;
(iv) assessed the operational capacity of health facilities to provide specific health services such as child health, reproductive health, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS; and
(v) evaluated the quality of routine national health information systems data.
The 2015 SARA survey collected data on a sample of 376 health facilities including public and private sector facilities
distributed in urban and rural areas, over the country's eight regions.
This descriptive report presents the methodology used by this survey and the findings. |
