Hello,
This message follows previous discussions that took place in Africa Tagging
Telegram group and on talk-cd list related to (missing) tags for mapping
rural healthcare facilities.
A dispensary ("dispensaire" or "poste de santé" per DRC local names)
matches the following definition extracted from Wikipedia: "a dispensary is
a small outpatient health facility, usually managed by a registered nurse.
It provides the most basic primary healthcare services to rural
communities, e.g. childhood immunization, family planning, wound dressing
and management of common ailments like colds, diarrhea and simple malaria.
The nurses report to the nursing officer at the health center, where they
refer patients with complicated diseases".
In the DRC, the mapping of dispensaries has been mainly using
health_facility:type=dispensary tag from abandoned proposal healthcare 2.0
for the last 2 years. Most of the involved mappers would now like to switch
towards a more consistent tagging scheme (that would hopefully also be
rendered on carto at some point).
What are your thoughts about adding the value "dispensary" in the wiki to
the healthcare key to map these places?
Additionally, despite dispensaries, a number of rural areas are still out
of reach of any regular healthcare provider. Therefore the Ministry of
Public Health in the DRC also recognized and organized community healthcare
provided by trained volunteers from the communities (these places are
called "sites de soins communautaires"). These places have a particular
focus on deadly diseases affecting children, they include prevention,
health promotion and curative activities. Since these don't even have a
single nurse as staff, I would like to propose a separate value such as
healthcare=community_care or community_care_site.
Regards,
Claire
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