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Needs Assessment Report by Chat
Kaung Su Aung Hospital (KSAH). This format includes an introduction, findings from the interviews
with the owners, and next steps.
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## 1. Introduction
## 2. Findings
1. **Governance Structures:**
- **Current Status:** There is currently no formal governance structure in place at KSAH.
- **Challenges:** The primary challenges include excessive workload, lack of a system for complaints
resolution, and the need for the right personnel in the right positions. There is a need for systems, skilled
people, and appropriate forms.
2. **Decision-Making:**
- **Current Process:** Decision-making is based on reports from the requested departments, field
checks, and workload comparisons.
- **Challenges:** Expansion, supply and demand considerations, and potential threats and risks need to
be considered in decision-making.
## 4. Conclusion
The needs assessment has identified critical areas for improvement at KSAH. By addressing the
recommendations from the DDA report and implementing the proposed actions, KSAH can enhance its
operational efficiency, ensure compliance with international standards, and prepare for future expansion.
Continued support from UNOPS will be instrumental in achieving these goals.
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Please continue to provide the answers to the remaining interview questions, and I will incorporate them
into this report format.
## 1. Introduction
4. **How do you coordinate with other healthcare facilities and community groups for project
implementation?**
- **Response:** Plans are in place to establish coordination after receiving registration.
5. **Can you discuss any plans or initiatives to address the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
(PSEA) within KSAH?**
- **Response:** A PSEA workshop was recently conducted by Dr. Linn, who took a PSEA course
from the UN. The training was voluntary and open to interested staff.
6. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Manages overall operations, prioritizes projects, allocates resources, and handles
financial management and budgeting.
**Organizational Structure and Human Resources, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment**
12. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Manages nursing staff, oversees patient care, handles human resources, and ensures
compliance with health and safety regulations.
14. **How do you handle security incidents or concerns within the KSAH premises?**
- **Response:** Security incidents are managed as they arise, but there are no formal policies.
- **Challenges:** Implementing a comprehensive security policy and training staff on security
protocols.
15. **How is health, safety, security, and environmental management addressed at KSAH?**
- **Response:** Existing practices are basic and need improvement.
- **Recommendations:** Develop HSSE policies and ensure regular reviews and updates.
- **Lack of Formal Governance Structure:** There is no formal governance structure, which affects
decision-making and overall management.
- **Over-reliance on Owners:** The owners retain most decision-making powers, which could lead to
conflicts and inefficiencies.
- **Need for Comprehensive Policies:** There is a need for comprehensive policies in financial
management, procurement, HR, and HSSE.
- **Capacity Building:** Staff require training in various areas, including PSEA, financial management,
and procurement.
## 4. Recommendations
## 1. Introduction
4. **How do you coordinate with other healthcare facilities and community groups for project
implementation?**
- **Response:** Plans are in place to establish coordination after receiving registration.
5. **Can you discuss any plans or initiatives to address the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
(PSEA) within KSAH?**
- **Response:** A PSEA workshop was recently conducted by Dr. Linn, who took a PSEA course
from the UN. The training was voluntary and open to interested staff.
### 2.2 Interview with Manager
6. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Manages overall operations, prioritizes projects, allocates resources, and handles
financial management and budgeting.
**Organizational Structure and Human Resources, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment**
12. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Manages nursing staff, oversees patient care, handles human resources, and ensures
compliance with health and safety regulations.
14. **How do you handle security incidents or concerns within the KSAH premises?**
- **Response:** Security incidents are managed as they arise, but there are no formal policies.
- **Challenges:** Implementing a comprehensive security policy and training staff on security
protocols.
15. **How is health, safety, security, and environmental management addressed at KSAH?**
- **Response:** Existing practices are basic and need improvement.
- **Recommendations:** Develop HSSE policies and ensure regular reviews and updates.
18. **How do you assess the effectiveness of project management methodologies within KSAH?**
- **Response:** No formal assessment; mostly handled by Ko Linn Htoo with data collection.
19. **Can you discuss any challenges you face in providing optimal patient care in your department?**
- **Response:** Challenges include manpower limitations, overburdening, and limited capacity
building.
20. **How do you ensure compliance with health and safety regulations in your department?**
- **Response:** Follow guidelines from MoH and WHO, but there is a lack of awareness among staff
about the need for checks and balances.
**Recommendations:**
- Improve staff retention and compensation to maintain skilled staff.
- Designate specific areas for EMOs to see patients and rest.
21. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Responsible for rounds in the morning, assisting in surgical cases, and managing
wards and OPD.
22. **How do you collaborate with other healthcare professionals within the clinic?**
- **Response:** Collaboration is mostly effective, especially with cashiers, consultants, and patients.
23. **Can you discuss any challenges you face in providing optimal patient care in your department?**
- **Response:** Challenges include workload, manpower, financial coverage, and cramped rooms.
24. **How do you ensure compliance with health and safety regulations in your department?**
- **Response:** Compliance is ensured through color-coded trash bins, masks, hand gels, but there is a
lack of proper training and formal rules.
- **Lack of Formal Governance Structure:** There is no formal governance structure, which affects
decision-making and overall management.
- **Over-reliance on Owners:** The owners retain most decision-making powers, which could lead to
conflicts and inefficiencies.
- **Need for Comprehensive Policies:** There is a need for comprehensive policies in financial
management, procurement, HR, and HSSE.
- **Capacity Building:** Staff require training in various areas, including PSEA, financial management,
and procurement.
- **Workload and Manpower Issues:** Overburdening of staff, especially in outpatient and inpatient
departments, leading to challenges in patient care.
## 4. Recommendations
1. **Establish a Formal Governance Structure:**
- Develop a governance framework with clear roles and responsibilities.
- Delegate decision-making powers to capable staff members to reduce the burden on the owners.
3. **Capacity Building:**
- Provide training for staff on PSEA, financial management, and procurement.
- Conduct workshops on strategic planning, SWOT analysis, and governance.
2. **Policy Development:**
- Engage consultants to assist in drafting comprehensive policies in financial management,
procurement, HR, and HSSE.
## 6. Conclusion
The needs assessment at Kaung Su Aung Hospital has identified critical areas requiring improvement,
including governance structures, policy development, capacity building, and staff management. By
addressing these issues through the recommended actions, KSAH can enhance its overall performance
and better serve its patients and community.
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This report serves as a comprehensive guide for KSAH to understand its current operational challenges
and take strategic steps towards improvement.
## 1. Introduction
4. **How do you coordinate with other healthcare facilities and community groups for project
implementation?**
- **Response:** Plans are in place to establish coordination after receiving registration.
5. **Can you discuss any plans or initiatives to address the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
(PSEA) within KSAH?**
- **Response:** A PSEA workshop was recently conducted by Dr. Linn, who took a PSEA course
from the UN. The training was voluntary and open to interested staff.
6. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Manages overall operations, prioritizes projects, allocates resources, and handles
financial management and budgeting.
**Organizational Structure and Human Resources, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment**
12. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Manages nursing staff, oversees patient care, handles human resources, and ensures
compliance with health and safety regulations.
14. **How do you handle security incidents or concerns within the KSAH premises?**
- **Response:** Security incidents are managed as they arise, but there are no formal policies.
- **Challenges:** Implementing a comprehensive security policy and training staff on security
protocols.
15. **How is health, safety, security, and environmental management addressed at KSAH?**
- **Response:** Existing practices are basic and need improvement.
- **Recommendations:** Develop HSSE policies and ensure regular reviews and updates.
17. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Responsible for emergency care, managing UTI, STI, chest pneumonia, seasonal flu,
over-the-counter drugs, and 24-hour duties with two doctors.
18. **How do you assess the effectiveness of project management methodologies within KSAH?**
- **Response:** No formal assessment; mostly handled by Ko Linn Htoo with data collection.
19. **Can you discuss any challenges you face in providing optimal patient care in your department?**
- **Response:** Challenges include manpower limitations, overburdening, and limited capacity
building.
20. **How do you ensure compliance with health and safety regulations in your department?**
- **Response:** Follow guidelines from MoH and WHO, but there is a lack of awareness among staff
about the need for checks and balances.
**Recommendations:**
- Improve staff retention and compensation to maintain skilled staff.
- Designate specific areas for EMOs to see patients and rest.
21. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Responsible for rounds in the morning, assisting in surgical cases, and managing
wards and OPD.
22. **How do you collaborate with other healthcare professionals within the clinic?**
- **Response:** Collaboration is mostly effective, especially with cashiers, consultants, and patients.
23. **Can you discuss any challenges you face in providing optimal patient care in your department?**
- **Response:** Challenges include workload, manpower, financial coverage, and cramped rooms.
24. **How do you ensure compliance with health and safety regulations in your department?**
- **Response:** Compliance is ensured through color-coded trash bins, masks, hand gels, but there is a
lack of proper training and formal rules.
**Organizational Structure and Human Resources, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment**
25. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Emergency Nurse:** Day and night shifts, responsible for handovers, managing injections, and
checking OT lists.
- **Inpatient Nurse:** 24-hour shifts, handling rounds, administering medication, and preparing for
operations.
- **OT Nurse:** Senior, mid, and junior ranks with 24-hour duties, managing elective and emergency
operations, and preparing instruments.
26. **What are the main challenges you encounter in your daily tasks as a nurse?**
- **Response:** Overwork, staff retention issues, misunderstandings among staff, and
miscommunications between departments. Duties and responsibilities often do not match, leading to
overwork and long hours without proper breaks.
27. **How do you ensure patient safety and comfort during your shifts?**
- **Response:** Following safety procedures for needle pricks, ensuring proper trash bin usage,
providing pre- and post-op care, and assisting patients with mobility.
**Recommendations:**
- Increase salaries, especially for nurse-aids.
- Improve working conditions by providing restrooms and dining areas for staff.
- Enhance training programs for staff to ensure compliance with safety protocols.
**Organizational Structure and Human Resources, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment**
25. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** 12-hour shifts, assisting with patient care, medication administration, post-op care,
and occasionally performing housekeeping duties when cleaners are unavailable.
26. **What are the main challenges you encounter in your daily tasks?**
- **Response:** Long work hours, low salary, and high workload.
**Recommendations:**
- Increase salaries and reduce workload by hiring additional staff.
- Provide designated restrooms and break areas for nurse-aids.
**Fixed Assets and Inventory Management, Health, Safety, Security, and Environment**
29. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Cleaning, washing, and ironing utilities, deep cleaning rooms after discharge, and
working in shifts.
30. **How are fixed assets and inventory managed within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Report to supervisor or manager.
- **Challenges:** Insufficient staff, especially during night shifts, leading to heavy workloads and lack
of rest facilities.
31. **How do you ensure cleanliness and hygiene standards are maintained throughout the hospital?**
- **Response:** On-the-job training provided by supervisors, but no formal training programs.
32. **Are there any specific policies or procedures you believe should be implemented to enhance
environmental safety and cleanliness within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Need for formal training, guidelines, and SOPs. High retention rates due to lack
33. **Can you provide an overview of your role and responsibilities within KSAH?**
- **Response:** Managing car parking, assisting disabled patients, minor maintenance tasks, and
ensuring general security.
34. **How do you handle security incidents or concerns within the KSAH premises?**
- **Response:** Rare incidents, mainly involving parking disputes, which are managed amicably.
35. **Are there any specific security protocols or measures you would recommend implementing to
enhance safety at KSAH?**
- **Response:** Additional security staff during the day shift, formalizing roles and responsibilities to
ensure coverage during absences.
**Recommendations:**
- Hire additional security staff to ensure comprehensive coverage.
- Develop formal security protocols and provide training for security personnel.
- **Lack of Formal Governance Structure:** There is no formal governance structure, which affects
decision-making and overall management.
- **Over-reliance on Owners:** The owners retain most decision-making powers, which could lead to
conflicts and inefficiencies.
- **Need for Comprehensive Policies:** There is a need for comprehensive policies in financial
management, procurement, HR, and HSSE.
- **Capacity Building:** Staff require training in various areas, including PSEA, financial management,
and procurement.
- **Workload and Manpower Issues:** Overburdening of staff, especially in outpatient and inpatient
departments, leading to challenges in patient care.
- **Inadequate Compensation:** Low salaries, especially for nurse-aids and cleaners, leading to high
staff turnover.
- **Insufficient Facilities:** Lack of restrooms, break areas, and dining facilities for staff affecting their
well-being and performance.
## 4. Recommendations
3. **Capacity Building:**
- Provide training for staff on PSEA, financial management, and procurement.
- Conduct workshops on strategic planning, SWOT analysis, and governance.
- **Action:** Improve working conditions by providing restrooms, break areas, and dining facilities for
staff.
- **Timeline:** Within the next 6 months.
- **Responsibility:** Manager and Head Nurse.
- **Action:** Redistribute workload among existing staff to ensure a more balanced distribution of
duties.
- **Timeline:** Within the next 3 months.
- **Responsibility:** Department Heads.
- **Action:** Provide regular training for security personnel on the new protocols.
- **Timeline:** Ongoing.
- **Responsibility:** Security Team.
## 6. Conclusion
The needs assessment for Kaung Su Aung Hospital (KSAH) has highlighted critical areas for
improvement, particularly in governance, management, staff compensation, and working conditions. By
developing formal structures and policies, providing comprehensive training, and enhancing staff welfare,
KSAH can improve its operational efficiency, staff satisfaction, and overall quality of patient care.
Implementing these recommendations requires a coordinated effort from the owners, management, and
staff. Regular reviews and updates of policies and practices will ensure that KSAH continues to meet high
standards of healthcare delivery and remains responsive to the needs of its staff and patients.
## 7. Appendices
By following the recommendations and action plans outlined in this report, Kaung Su Aung Hospital can
address its current challenges and position itself for sustainable growth and improved healthcare delivery.
7.5 Sample Policies
(Include sample policies for financial management, procurement, human resources, health, safety,
security, and environment)
(Include the results of the staffing needs assessment, detailing the required positions, qualifications, and
responsibilities)
(Include the developed security protocols, outlining procedures for handling security incidents and
ensuring the safety of patients, staff, and visitors)
## 8. Acknowledgments
We extend our gratitude to all the stakeholders, including owners, management, medical staff, nurses, and
support staff, for their valuable insights and contributions to this needs assessment. Their cooperation and
dedication are essential for improving the operations and services of Kaung Su Aung Hospital.
## 9. References
[List any references or sources used during the needs assessment process]
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This report summarizes the findings of the needs assessment conducted at Kaung Su Aung Hospital
(KSAH) and provides recommendations for improvement across various areas of operation. By
implementing the suggested actions, KSAH can enhance its governance, management, human resources,
health, safety, security, and environmental practices, leading to improved quality of care and overall
effectiveness.