Table 5.
Assessing the availability of basic infrastructure and specific requirements in four “non-reporting” AMR 1 surveillance sites in Province 3 of Nepal (January to February 2020).
| Requirements | Response | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | Site 4 | |
| Number of microbiology staff | 15 | 8 | 4 | 7 |
| Number of rooms dedicated to data entry | One | One | None | None |
| Area of data entry room | <150 | <150 | N/A 2 | <150 |
| Availability of computer for data entry | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Number of computers for data entry | 5 | One | N/A | 1 |
| Availability of Internet service | Yes | No | N/A | Yes |
| Speed of Internet service | >0.5 Mbps 3 | N/A | N/A | >0.5 Mbps |
| Availability of person for data entry | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Qualification of data entry person | BSc.MLT 4 | BSc.MLT/CMLT 5 | N/A | BSc.MLT |
| Training received on AMR surveillance | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| When was AMR surveillance training received? | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | N/A |
| Training received on data entry and analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| When was data entry training received? | Every year | May 2019 | May 2019 | N/A |
| Training received on WHONET 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| When was WHONET training received? | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | N/A |
| Agreement/TOR 7 | Verbal | Verbal | Verbal | Verbal |
| Institutional restrictions on data sharing with the NPHL 8 | None | None | Verbal | None |
1 AMR, antimicrobial resistance; 2 N/A, not applicable; 3 Mbps, megabytes per second; 4 BSc.MLT, Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology; 5 CMLT, Certificate in Medical Laboratory Technology; 6 WHONET, WHO free software; 7 TOR, terms of reference; 8 NPHL, National Public Health Laboratory.