And while West Point has extensive recreational facilities, village residents cannot use them without a sponsor from the base.
Health providers were grouped as primary care facilities (village doctors, township hospitals and community health centres), hospitals, specialist hospitals, TB dispensaries or TB designated hospitals.
First, there was no random assignment of facilities, villages or clients to the voucher program.
Over the years, several ideas have been advanced to adapt parts of the building for public use -- as a library, perhaps, or an assisted-living facility or village hall.
For each of the selected health facility, one village in its catchment area was selected randomly.
To ensure the efficient operation of the facility, a village committee was set up to oversee management of services.
While multi-stakeholder committees have been established in the provinces and districts, and consultative committees at health facility and village levels, they do not interact sufficiently with each other and for that matter, with the health facilities and communities.
This is in contrast to studies in Tanzania [11,12] that found little impact of community participation in planning and priority setting, despite planning guidelines and the presence of similar health committees at the facility and village levels.
Similarly from a sampling frame of 80 villages that had no static health facility, 6 villages were randomly selected using a sampling interval of 13.
These universally-accessible [ 11] PHC facilities include village and township clinics in rural areas and community health service facilities in urban areas.
