Health care location details for facilities in Rwanda

Mark Herringer made this Access to Information request to Ministry of Health

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The request was partially successful.

Dear Ministry of Health,

I would like to ask for the following information under Law no 04/2013 of 08/02/2013 relating to access to information.

Health care location data in the form of contact details, location and resources available at every hospital, health post and rural healthcare clinic.

Here is a list of the attributes for each health care location we are asking for:

Date modified (When was the data last updated)
Health facility name
Latitude
Longitude
Health facility type
Health services available
Address
Phone_Fax
Mobile
Email
Website

Yours faithfully,

Mark Herringer

nathanmugume,

Dear Mark, 
E mail received,  we are working on the asked questions
Regards
Nathan
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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nathan nathan.mugume,

1 Attachment

Will send more as i get it

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Dear nathan nathan.mugume,

Are you able to send through the remaining attributes?

Yours sincerely,

Mark Herringer

ODESUDI left an annotation ()

Dear Nathan,

Please refer to Article 3 and 4 of the Ministerial ORDER Nº 007/07.01/13 OF 27/12/2013 in relation to request for extension of the period of time or transfer of request If you don't have the information with you. Otherwise it would like you are not complying with the access to information Law.

Team sobanukirwa

Hi Nathan,

Could you send through an update?

thanks
Mark

nathanmugume,

Hi mark, 
I.have been trying to get the requested information from our IT team,
 unfortunately it is not available
Regards
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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Dear Ministry of Health,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts access to information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Ministry of Health's handling of my ATI request 'Health care location details for facilities in Rwanda'.

I undertsand from Edith Munyana's feedback above that this information is available.
' This information is available in the HMIS database and Andrew would be in a better place to respond to this with factual data '

Please could you review.

A full history of my ATI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://sobanukirwa.rw/request/health_ca...

Yours faithfully,
Mark Herringer

nathanmugume,

Dear Mark
Sorry,  It seems there was a miscommunication between the concerned staff,
 Andrew has taken it on and will provide what is available
Regards
 Nathan
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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Muhire Andrew,

Thanks Nathan,
Dear Mark, 
The information we can get from our HMIS system is :
-Name of Facility-----This is provided, [1]Download
-Longitude-----------this is provided [2]Download
-Latitude--------------provided [3]Download
-Type of facility----------provided [4]Download
-Health services available-------Not provided (we can provide minimum
package for HC or DH)
Others attributes  like:
Address (this can be replaced by Province, Distric, DH, Sector, HC) this
is available
Phone_Fax -----Not in HMIS
Mobile-------not in HMIS (but we have Data managers info)
Email------------Not in HMIS (But we have the Data managers and M&E info)
Website ---------Not in HMIS
Please let us know which one you are missing from above information HMIS
collects from Health facilities.....
Regards!

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"Better Information, better Decisions, better Health"
 MUHIRE Andrew
 Sector M&E and Report Specialist lead
 Ministry of Health
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste"
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 ** Cell:(+250)788436150** 
*** Twitter :muhire_andrew***
**** skype:muhire_andrew****
link to HMIS system: [5]https://hmis.moh.gov.rw/hmis

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Mark Herringer left an annotation ()

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your support with this request.

Here is a link to the information received:
https://sobanukirwa.rw/request/22/respon...

Here is an overview describing the status of each health location attribute including responses* to your updates.

1. Date modified - Not received
2. Health facility name - Received
3. Latitude - Received
4. Longitude - Received
5. Health facility type - Not received
6. Health services available - Not provided (we can provide minimum package for HC or DH) *Please send
7. Address - Province, District - Not received
8. Phone_Fax - Not in HMIS *Ok
9. Mobile - Not in HMIS (but we have Data managers info) *Please send
10. Email - Not in HMIS (But we have the Data managers and M&E info) *Please send
11. Website - Not in HMIS *Ok

Not asked for but provided (thank you)
12. Ownership - *Please send

thanks
Mark

Dear Muhire Andrew,

Could you send through a status update on this request?

Yours sincerely,

Mark Herringer

Muhire Andrew,

Dear Mark,
Could you check on MOH website [1]www.moh.gov.rw the HMIS menu, we have
documents that can help you.
For minimum packages for facilities: Here is the link for their reporting
forms/services offered by each level [2]http://moh.gov.rw/index.php?id=135
llink to health facilities: [3]http://moh.gov.rw/index.php?id=144
On address, Please use the last file i sent you showing, Province,
District, Sector, Health Facilities, type, GPS coordinates.
Let me know if you need clarification on above documents.
 
 

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"Better Information, better Decisions, better Health"
 MUHIRE Andrew
 Sector M&E and Report Specialist lead
 Ministry of Health
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste"
    --------------------------------------
 ** Cell:(+250)788436150** 
*** Twitter :muhire_andrew***
**** skype:muhire_andrew****
link to HMIS system: [4]https://hmis.moh.gov.rw/hmis

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