vill. Health Facilities Clinics 1) Present Status of Facilities/Equipment/Supplies As part of the “health resources" survey at each clinic visited, an inventory of equipment, facilities, and supplies was done. (Detailed results are available from the Loma Linda University team - they are not included here due to lack of space. Appendix G). a. Copies of the forms used for the inventory are in Briefly the present status is as follows: All clinic facilities need some repair of windows, doors, roofs, etc. Some may need total replacement. Very few havd functional toilets, washing facilities, or water catchments. Not one functional refrigerator was found though many clinics were issued one. Many had never worked because the health assistants did not know how to light the kerosene wick element or insert it (most wick elements were damaged). Fuel was often not available even if the refrigerator had worked. Most of the refigerators were too large and complex for existing needs. Very few of the beds, mattresses, and examining tables were in good condition (rarely do the examining tables have stirrups such as for deliveries). Common health assessment tools and stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, equipment scales, otoscopes, etc., were either never issued or non-functional. Sheets, towels, and other linen were largely non-existent. The medicine and medical supply situation varies tremendously with the clinic though the most common situation is the following: 1) No family planning supplies (intrauterine devices, condoms, pills, etc.) were found anywhere. 2) Expendable supplies such as splints, bandages, adhesive tape, cotton, bandaids are very seldom in enough supply. 3) Often clinics are over-stocked in some items i.e. solution and yet few have syringes intravenous (particularly diabetic syringes) 4) Many medicines were out-of-date or unused, often health assistant did not know what they were for. because the