State of the Map Africa 2021

Community mapping of Health Center Facilities in Mugumu-Serengeti
11-19, 15:55–16:15 (UTC), Room 1
Language: English

Mugumu is a small town in Northern Part of Tanzania, Facing many challenges one of them is access of Health Center facilities, many pregnant women have been delivery at their Household due to distance travel to reach a near Health center facility, some of them don't even know how to differentiate the services provided between Hospital, Dispensary, Clinic and Pharmacy


With the Challenges of access of Health center facilities that Mugumu - Serengeti community are facing, we designed a questionnaires that will help in collecting the necessary information of Health center facilities available in our community like name of Health center, whether it's Government or Private, services they provide, distance from the center of the village to a Health center, Capacity of victim they can afford to provide services, number of Doctor and nurses they have,Does it provide free services for Pregnant Women or Elders or People with HIV positive, and also take a co ordinate of the Health center.
Creating a map of Mugumu-Serengeti showing Health center facilities available and Services provided, and also create a map of Health Center facilities of each Village with services provide and put them to Village Executive Officers office for people to visualize their maps.