Evaluation of facility preparedness of Soum health center and inter-soum hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Facility access, preparedness and accomplishment are crucial factors for quality and accessibility of health care service. In Mongolia, there has not yet conducted a study regarding standardized facility preparedness of primary health centers, especially Soum health center and inter-soum hospitals. Objective: We aimed to evaluate current accessibility and source of Soum health center and inter-soum hospital facilities. Material and method: We conducted the study by analytic cross-sectional design and descriptive method. In order to evaluate the preparedness of Soum health center and inter soum hospital facilities, we used MNS5081:2013 standard. Result: As a results of the study, 32 percent of total Soum health centers/inter-soum hospitals facilities were aged above 40 years. Furthermore, specialized rooms, cabinets and their area sizes did not meet the standardized requirements. For instance, 77 percent of Tertiary Soum health centers and Inter-soum health centers did not have specialized X-ray cabinet. Moreover, 66.7 percent of out-patient rooms, 49 percent of inpatient rooms, more than 50 percent of delivery rooms had less area than standard. Similarly, 70 percent of examination rooms did not meet the requirement for keeping the customers’ privacy and 30 percent of them did not meet room temperature standard requirements. Conclusion: Most of the facilities of soum health center and inter-soum hospitals were old and there was lack of specialized rooms which are required to provide health care service and room areas were less than standardized room size.