General practitioners, dentists, paediatricians, and gynaecologists all practised at these clinics, and physiotherapy and basic diagnostic services were also available.
Although health centres and even dispensaries are supposed to provide basic diagnostic services, such services were reported to be almost never available.
According to Tanzania health policy 2003, dispensaries are designed to offer outpatient services including reproductive and child health services, and basic diagnostic services [ 1].
Chinese CHS provides basic diagnostic and treatment services for disease prevention, keeping fit, recuperating health, health education, family planning technical service, common diseases, frequently encountered diseases, and chronic diseases [ 11].
In addition to in-patient and day care, HC1 includes 'out-patient care', defined as basic medical and diagnostic services, out-patient dental care and other specialist health care provided to outpatients by physicians or paramedics, including services provided at home [ 4].
The notorious underfinancing of health systems in many tropical and subtropical countries explains the severe neglect of laboratory networks and the only limited availability of basic tests for diagnostic services (e.g. direct faecal smears for helminth diagnosis or blood films for malaria diagnosis) [ 22].
They can have between 30 and 200 beds, a 24-h emergency service, access to basic diagnostic equipment and an operating theatre.
Discussion of clinical infrastructure prompted several leaders to bemoan the logic of recent investments in higher-quality services such as the new trauma hospital, or an MRI, when so many facilities in Ghana continued to need basic diagnostic equipment, or a "repair and service" culture to ensure quality in basic labs.
In addition to not receiving diagnostic services caretakers also reported that even basic clinical examinations were sometime not performed by the attending clinician.
The Division of Comparative Medicine has three basic missions: education, research, and the provision of comprehensive animal husbandry, clinical, and diagnostic services for all research animals at MIT.
The larger centers offer basic radiologic, diagnostic, and laboratory services; smaller PHCs depend on offsite laboratory and diagnostic services.
