2. Health Facility Assessment
Aims & Objectives
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework of the
National Maternal Newborn and Child Health
Programme (NMNCHP).
To assess the availability, functioning, and quality of
health care services in the public sector health facilities.
To ascertain gaps in availability of infrastructure, human
resource (HR), drugs and supplies; equipment; and level-
specific support services; as well as management basics
The information provided will be used to improve
services
3. Health Facility Assessment
Specific objectives :
To assess the health facility status and quality of MNCH
services (Comprehensive and Basic EmONC, Preventive
MNCH and Family Planning) at district level;
To assess clients’ satisfaction and perception of MNCH
services;
To provide information for systematic planning for
procurement and supply of goods and commodities
(listing the medical equipment and instruments which
needs to be replaced or purchased); and
To update and assess the contributions made by the
development partners for improving MNCH and FP
services in the selected districts
4. Health Facility Assessment: Progress
2,018 health facilities assessed across the country.
Provision of 24/7 CEmONC services;
108 District Headquarter (DHQ) and Agency
Headquarter (AHQ) Hospitals and 280 Tehsil
Headquarter (THQ) and Civil hospitals
24/7 Basic EmONC services
638 Rural Health Centres (RHCs) DHQ, THQ and
Civil Hospitals
8/6 Preventive MNCH services
992 sampled Basic Health Units (BHUs)
5. Health Facility Assessment
MNCHP Analytical Framework
Support Service Inputs:
infrastructure,
human resource,
equipment,
Drugs & Supplies
Level specific support services
6. Health Facility Assessment
Assessment Criterion for Support services :
Meeting 100% - all required inputs are available in
the HF,
Meeting 75% - overall availability of more than 75%
of required inputs, and minimum of 70% for each
input criteria
7. SERVICE PACKAGES
BHUs: Facility RHCs: Facility DHQ/THQ
available for available for Hospitals: Facility
available for
8/6 Preventive 24/7 Basic EmONC 24/7 Comprehensive
MNCH Services Services EmONC services
∙Parenteral
∙Antenatal antibiotics
checkup ∙Parenteral oxytocic
∙Surgery (C-
drugs section)
∙Lab (Anemia, ∙Blood transfusion
∙Parenteral
Malaria, pregnancy anticonvulsants for ∙Newborn care
test, urine test for pregnancy induced (resuscitation &
sugar & Protein) convulsions (due to incubator)
∙Normal delivery hypertension) +
∙Family planning ∙Manual removal of ∙Gynaecologic
services (at least 3 placenta
al care
methods) ∙Removal of retained
products
∙Comprehensive
∙TT immunization family planning
∙Assisted vaginal
∙EPI vaccination services including
delivery (vacuum
∙Growth monitoring extraction, forceps) sterilisation
∙Nutrition counseling ∙Newborn resuscitation ∙ HR (skilled staff for
∙HR (at least one LHV + conducting, C-section,
or Doctor) ∙ Post abortion blood transfusion and
care anaesthesia),
∙HR (skilled female
and
providers-WMO and
LHVs), and
∙Preventive
∙Preventive MNCH MNCH and
Basic
EmONC
14. Re-Evaluation
Assumption based on Provision of Services
1. Preventive MNCH services, available for 8 hours a
day, 6 days a week – BHUs
2. Basic EmONC services (including 1. above), available for
24 hours a day, 7 days a week - RHCs, THQ, CH,
DHQs
3. Comprehensive EmONC services (including 1. & 2.
above), available for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -
DHQ, THQ and Civil Hospitals
15. Components of Services Package
8/6 Preventive MNCH 24/7 Basic EmONC 24/7 Comprehensive
Services Services EmONC Services
•Antenatal checkup •Parenteral antibiotics •Surgery (C-section)
•Lab (Anemia, Malaria, •Parenteral oxytocic drugs •Blood transfusion
pregnancy test, urine test for •Parenteral anticonvulsants •Newborn care (resuscitation
sugar & Protein) •Manual removal of placenta & incubator)
•Normal delivery •Removal of retained •+
•Family planning services (at products •Gynaecological care
least 3 methods) •Assisted vaginal delivery •Comprehensive family
•TT immunization (vacuum extraction, forceps) planning services including
•EPI vaccination •Newborn resuscitation sterilisation
•Growth monitoring •+ • HR (skilled staff for
•Nutrition counseling • Post abortion care conducting, C-section, blood
•HR (at least one LHV or •HR (skilled female transfusion and anaesthesia),
Doctor) providers-WMO and LHVs), •and
and •Preventive MNCH and Basic
•Preventive MNCH EmONC
•
16. Re-Evaluation: Progress
Health Facility Tabulations ; Region, District , and
Facility-Wise.
Punjab HFA Report Edited and Restructured.
Facility Wise Analysis
The national Health Facility Assessment (HFA) was conducted from October 2010 to May 2011 covering all Provinces and Regions of Pakistan as part of the implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework of the National Maternal Newborn and Child Health Programme (NMNCHP).The HFA aims to describe the availability, level of functioning and quality of health services in the public health sector facilities.
2,018 health facilities assessed across the country. Secondary health care (SHC) hospitals including 108 District Headquarter (DHQ) and Agency Headquarter (AHQ) Hospitals, and 280 Tehsil Headquarter (THQ) and Civil hospitals were assessed for provision of 24/7 Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) services; 638 Rural Health Centres (RHCs) were assessed for 24/7 Basic EmONC services and 992 sampled Basic Health Units (BHUs) were assessed for availability of 8/6 Preventive MNCH services. Further, status of DHQ, THQ and Civil Hospitals were also assessed for their readiness to deliver 24/7 Basic EmONC services.
Functional status of a health facility was based on overall availability of 5 specified required iinputs for support services proposed in the PC-1 of the National MNCH Programme
This assumption was based on availability of inputs and did not imply the provision of services by the surveyed health facility.