Data management needs assessment for the scale-up of district health information system and introduction of routine (essential) immunization module in Bauchi State, Nigeria, 2015

Olorunsogo Bidemi Adeoye; Oluwasegun Joel Adegoke; Chimeremma Nnadi; Hashim Elmousaad; Kunle Akerele; Patrick Nguku; Idowu Makinde; Richard Franka; Ndadilnasiya Endie Waziri

doi:10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.40.1.32458

Data management needs assessment for the scale-up of district health information system and introduction of routine (essential) immunization module in Bauchi State, Nigeria, 2015

Pan Afr Med J. 2022 Feb 17;40(Suppl 1):13. doi: 10.11604/pamj.supp.2022.40.1.32458. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Olorunsogo Bidemi Adeoye¹, Oluwasegun Joel Adegoke², Chimeremma Nnadi², Hashim Elmousaad², Kunle Akerele¹, Patrick Nguku¹, Idowu Makinde¹, Richard Franka³, Ndadilnasiya Endie Waziri¹

Affiliations

¹ African Field Epidemiology Network, Nigeria Country Office, Nigeria.
² Bauchi State Primary Health Care Management Board, Bauchi, Nigeria.
³ Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia.

Abstract

Introduction: the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, African Field Epidemiology Network, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are implementing a Routine Immunization (RI) Module as part of their Routine Health Data Management System based on the 2013 - 2015 Accountability Framework for RI in Nigeria. To inform planning and evidence-based decision making, a data management needs assessment was conducted in Bauchi state which was one of the states selected for the deployment of the DHIS2 RI module.

Methods: desk reviews were conducted, and a semi-structured questionnaire was administered in four Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Bauchi state that were selected based on the initial evaluation of the performance of all 20 Bauchi LGAs. Ganjuwa and Shira were selected as high-performing LGAs and Alkaleri and Bogoro as low-performing LGAs. Four Health Facilities (HF) were selected in each LGA based on rural or urban classification, type of HFs (private or public), security and accessibility.

Results: local Immunization Officers (LIOs) prepare monthly reports in high-performing LGAs, and Community Health Care workers are mostly (69%) responsible for report compilation at the HFs. Shira and Alkaleri met 77% and 44% of training indicator targets, respectively, in the previous 12 months. Data recording and reporting was the type of training received the most by health facility personnel. Functioning refrigerators were in all visited LGAs, working thermometer and updated temperature monitoring charts were available in all the cold chain stores. However, no health facility reported having available computers for data-related activities.

Conclusion: this assessment provided an improved understanding of the Bauchi state Routine Health Data Management System and informed the content of the state-wide scale-up.

Keywords: Bauchi State; Immunization data management; Nigeria; district health information system; health facility; health management information system; local government; routine immunization module.

MeSH terms

Data Management
Health Information Systems*
Humans
Immunization
Needs Assessment
Nigeria / epidemiology