Abstract

Hadgu Gerensea*, Tadis Brhane and Hagos G/luel

ABSTRACT

Background: Suhul hospital is a general public hospital. The main objective of the hospital is providing medical service for the community and serves for greater than one million peoples. Objective: To assess the availability of human resources, materials and wards environment at medical and surgical wards. Method: institutional based cross-sectional survey was conducted to address the objective using structured interview for all nurses of medical and surgical ward. Similarly observational checklist was also used. Result: It was found that a total of 24 nurses were involved in the provision of the nursing care, out of these 3(12.5%) BSc and 21(87.5) were diploma holders in these wards. The availability and adequacy of the equipment and consumable supplies was serious problem at medical wards –A, of the 12 sample required 11(91.7%) were available out of 8 (66.7%) were inadequate. In all the wards the unavailability and inadequacy of the emergency drugs and the equipment were also among the problems described by the head nurses. It was observed that most of the wards condition was bad. Conclusion: Except one ward that had undergone major renovation work the condition of the other wards was deteriorating, even it was found that the environmental condition of all the rest wards were bad. Some of the wards were even devoid of their own toilets and bath rooms. In the specific wards surveyed the staff reported they were crippled by unavailability and inadequacy of certain equipment and supplies.