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Table 3 Availability of basic health services in % of facilities offering the service, by level of healthcare, July–August 2015

From: The role of public health information in assistance to populations living in opposition and contested areas of Syria, 2012–2014

Level of health care / Type of health service

Primary health care

Secondary health care

Tertiary health care

Total

Outreach activities within the community

 Health education

43.6

18.9

43.2

37.8

 Screening for malnutrition with MUAC

27.5

18.9

13.6

23.2

 Follow up of malnourished children

30.4

39.6

18.2

30.2

 Pregnancy screening for referral to ANC

36.9

39.6

27.3

35.8

Screening and referral of non-vaccinated children

28.2

28.3

11.4

24.8

 Out Patient services

 Outpatient services

63.1

83

70.5

68.7

 Basic Laboratory Services

30.2

84.9

47.7

45.1

 Basic Imaging Service

15.4

79.2

50

35.4

Surgery

 Primary Injury care

52.3

86.8

38.6

57.3

 Emergency surgery

17.4

73.6

43.2

34.1

 Elective surgery

12.8

75.5

40.9

31.3

 Intensive care unit

4.7

32.1

11.4

11.8

 Basic blood bank service

6.7

49.1

29.5

19.9

 Comprehensive blood bank service

0.7

7.5

11.4

3.7

 Post-operative care

24.8

77.4

45.5

39.8

Child health

 EPI

17.2

13.2

2.3

13.6

 Screening for acute malnutrition (SAM)

22.1

28.3

18.2

22.8

 Outpatient treatment of SAM

24.2

45.3

22.7

28.5

 Stabilization Centre for the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition

8.1

15.1

18.2

11.4

 Basic Child Care (IMCI)

28.4

32.1

29.5

29.4

 Management of children suffering from severe and very severe illness

37.6

57.7

34.1

41.2

Communicable diseases

 Treatment of measles

49.7

56.6

34.1

48.4

 Treatment of cholera

25.5

35.8

31.8

28.9

 Treatment of acute bloody diarrhoea

54.7

67.9

38.6

54.7

 Treatment of acute watery diarrhoea

58.4

67.9

38.6

56.9

 Treatment of Typhoid and Brucellosis

57.7

73.6

34.1

56.9

 Treatment of Rabies

16.1

15.1

6.8

14.6

 Treatment of leishmaniasis

73.8

56.6

31.8

62.6

 Diagnosis of Viral Hepatitis B&C

33.1

52.8

31.8

37.1

 Treatment of Viral Hepatitis B&C

5.4

13.2

13.6

8.5

 Diagnosis of TB locally or via referral

33.6

47.2

20.5

34.1

 Treatment of TB

4.7

11.3

11.4

7.3

  1. Source: Health Resources Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS) Health Facilities Report:
  2. Health Cluster - Turkey: Assessment of 254 facilities in nine Governorates in Syria. July–August 2015, 2015: http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/herams_report_-_final.pdf