Meatu District Report - Whole Village Project - University of Minnesota

Table 4. Percent of Students Attending Primary School Hungry
% Students Attending School
Village
Without Eating Food or
Having Tea Only
School Meals Provided
Mbushi 90% No
Mbushi
(Shushuni Primary School)
100% Porridge for Lunch
Iramba Ndogo 100% No
Iramba Ndogo
(Sungu Primary School)
4. 5 Health
100% Porridge for Breakfast and Lunch
Sapa 77% No
Makao 100% No
4.5.1 Access to Health Services
Access to health services is central to the delivery of prevention and care services and health
outcomes. Here we consider service availability and service quality as a measure of “access.”
Service availability can include distance or time required to reach the facility (or trained health
providers), hours of operation, appropriate personnel on-staff, and necessary equipment to run
laboratory tests; service quality may address proper staff training and appropriate treatment (and
availability of commodities) according to established guidelines.
Qualitative information on the problems facing villages in Meatu District was collected through
focus group discussions with men and women. In all four villages, respondents ranked malaria as
the number one ranked health issue facing men, women, and children (see Table 5). Among adults,
foot and wrist pain and hernia were commonly cited. Children in Makao and Iramba Ndogo faced
issues with diarrhea and malnutrition and dehydration problems for children in Mbushi.
20 Results and Discussion | Whole Village Project – Meatu District, January 2011