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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2020 Aug 1;38(39):6103–6111. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.07.031

Table 1.

Characteristics of health facilities sampled, VaxTrac assessment, Western Urban, Sierra Leone, 2017.

Facility Name Facility Type Ward Location Catchment population& Under-5 population& Under-1 population& EPI staff* Staff using VaxTrac# Staff trained on VaxTrac
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.