Quality of Antenatal Care Services at the Primary Healthcare center, Gezira, State, Sudan [June 2022–September 2022]

Abstract

Quality is the most important issue and the main predictor variable in developing as well as developed countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Sudan, which is the largest country in Africa, has one of the highest rates of maternal and perinatal mortality, project of safe motherhood in Gezira ,State Sudan lead to reduction of maternal death from 469 per 100,000 live births in 2005 to 139 in 2019, Still in recent years the percentage of maternal death increase so this area need many researches to highlight the problem .: this is a cross sectional study with simple random sampling technique, by got a list of pregnant women attended to the Banat health center per day, assigned each patient a number, wrote each patient number on small piece of paper, ensured good mixing. Then 10 papers were taken. The patients belonging to these numbers were interviewed. This technique was done every working day for two months. Then 400 patients constitute the sample.: regarding age showed that no association between it and service provision[p value 0.992] or Experience of care, satisfaction respectively p vale [ 0.900, 0.618].but there is association between residence and Experience of care. p value[0.050],as same with level of education p value:Still quality of care of pregnant women in Gezira ,State Sudan is suboptimal due to a lot of factors and obstacles as appear in this study lack of investigation ,infrastructure problem clear protocols and guidelines ,educational level, residence.

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“…To highlight the problem of ANC quality, in 2022 another study was conducted to assess pregnant women's experience of care and their satisfaction at the primary healthcare center in Gezira, Sudan. They concluded that the poor quality of ANC is due to inadequate material resources, a deficiency of human power, the absence of on-the-job training for service providers, insufficient protocols and guidelines, poor infrastructure, and administrative weakness at health facilities [23]. Another study conducted in 2011 at Ribat University Hospital in Khartoum was conducted to assess the quality of documentation for the ANC card.…”