(CHW1) From the users' perspective, along with the distance to reach the facility, non-availability or delay in emergency transport were the main issues in accessing the health facility.
Barriers to management include late presentation, poor socioeconomic conditions, absence of medical insurance, limited diagnostic facilities and non-availability of chronic renal replacement therapy (RRT).
Transferred out patients were those who after stabilization were transferred to another facility due to non-availability of high dependency beds in the hospital, financial constraints or on patients will.
The major barriers to accessing health facilities identified were non-availability or erratic supply of drugs in the health care facilities, distance of some of the communities to the health centres, poor transportation system in the rural areas and financial constraints on the part of the caregivers.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), though recommended, could not be done on this patient because of non-availability of facility for this procedure in the geographical region where the patient was managed.
We were unable to perform arsenic speciation due to non-availability of facilities and the lack of funds.
This very poor knowledge in our study may also be explained by the non-availability of the facility even in many of the government health institutions in the country including Benin City.
In low-income countries, STI often go undiagnosed and untreated due to lack of knowledge and/or non-availability of healthcare facilities.
Working knowledge on midwifery is also required because of the sometimes non-availability of health facilities in rural areas and the high prevalence of home deliveries.
Other reasons noted by the surgeons were the higher cost of breast conserving therapy (17.9%), non-availability of radiotherapy facilities (25.4%), and insufficiency of experience with the BCS technique (14.9%).
Usually, the holding cost in rented warehouse is higher than that in owned warehouse, due to the non-availability of better preserving facility which results in higher deterioration rate.
