Table 1.
Facility Name | Facility Type | Ward Location | Catchment population& | Under-5 population& | Under-1 population& | EPI staff* | Staff using VaxTrac# | Staff trained on VaxTrac |
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Facility visited in November 2017 (N = 5) | ||||||||
1. Ola During | Hospital | East | 35,500 | 6,284 | 1,420 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
2. Kuntorloh | CHC | East | 38,210 | 6,763 | 1,528 | 12~ | 12 | 2 |
3. Kissy CHC | CHC | East | 42,904 | 7,594 | 1,716 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
4. Military 34 | Hospital | West | 11,734 | 2,077 | 469 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
5. Murray Town | CHC | West | 20,110 | 3,560 | 804 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Facility visited in December 2017 (N = 5) | ||||||||
6. Mabella | CHC | Central | 11,663 | 2,064 | 467 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
7. King Harman | Hospital | Central | 11,384 | 2,015 | 455 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
8. Calaba Town | CHC | East | 12,805 | 2,266 | 512 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
9. Allen Town | CHC | East | 15,436 | 2,732 | 617 | 3 | 5^ | 2 |
10. Rokupa | Hospital | East | 32,099 | 5,682 | 1,284 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Total | 231,845 | 41,037 | 9,272 | 46 | 41 | 21 |
Based on official estimates posted in the health facility wall-charts provided by the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation.
Based on information provided by interviewed health staff or facility-in-charge regarding health workers who were assigned to EPI.
Full-time health staff using VaxTrac at the time of the assessment (including health workers that may not have been dedicated to EPI alone).
2 health workers in the health facility who were not part of the EPI staff were also reportedly using VaxTrac when they help with EPI.
This facility did not have dedicated EPI staff and all 12 health workers in the facility rotated with EPI duties.
EPI = Expanded Program on Immunization; CHC = community health center.
Under-5 = Number of children under the age of five years living in the catchment area.
Under-2 = Number of children under the age of 1 year living in the catchment area.