5th June, 2014 Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) secretariat with technical assistance of FATA Development Program (FDP) of GIZ, a German international non-governmental organization, conducted an assessment of District Health Information System (DHIS) in selected Frontier Regions and Agencies of FATA. The results of the assessment were analyzed by Prime Foundation as external consultants. Based on the findings, Prime Foundation was also tasked with development of a draft Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) and disseminating the findings in a workshop.
The workshop took place on 5th June, 2014. Representatives of the health sector of FATA and FR regions attended the workshop and provided their inputs.
During the workshop, opening remarks were made by Dr. Qasim Afridi, Chief HSRU FATA while Director Health Services FATA, Dr. Pervaiz Kamal inaugurated the workshop. Dr. Mehran from GIZ-FDP presented an overview of the DHIS assessment.
From Prime Foundation, Dr. Zeeshan presented quantitative results of the assessment., He outlined the findings related to different data quality parameters regarding OPD, maternal health, and OT registers. Dr. Saeed (Prime Foundation) presented the qualitative findings in the following session. Dr. Saeed shared selected de-identified comments about supply of DHIS tools, data quality, and report. Dr. Usman of Prime Foundation introduced the participants to some basic concepts related to quality parameters of information systems. The workshop moderators from Prime Foundation engaged the healthcare staff and management officials representing all the FR and FATA regions through group discussions and presentations. Later, Dr. Usman presented a draft outline of the quality assurance plan. He explained related terminologies and introduced the participants to Routine Data Quality Assessment (RDQA) tool, a standard methodology used world-wide for quality assessment. In the end, Dr. Saeed presented the overall conclusions for both the quantitative and qualitative assessments.
The overall project (including the FATA DHIS assessment, dissemination of the results, and developing a quality assurance plane) concluded on 14, June 2014.
