From: Local self governance in health - a study of it’s functioning in Odisha, India
Items | District classification | p | |||||
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Priority | Non-priority | Total | |||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
The amount of funds allocated under NHM to the RKS? | |||||||
More than enough | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.6 | 2 | 1.9 | p = 0.100 |
Sufficient | 12 | 23.1 | 7 | 12.5 | 19 | 17.6 | |
Manageable | 25 | 48.1 | 30 | 53.6 | 55 | 50.9 | |
Insufficient | 15 | 28.8 | 13 | 23.2 | 28 | 25.9 | |
Grossly insufficient | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7.1 | 4 | 3.7 | |
Total | 52 | 100 | 56 | 100 | 108 | 100 | |
Is user-fees being imposed in the institution (health unit)? | |||||||
Yes | 45 | 88.2 | 53 | 94.6 | 98 | 91.6 | p = 0.233 |
No | 6 | 11.8 | 3 | 5.4 | 9 | 8.4 | |
Total | 51 | 100 | 56 | 100 | 107 | 100 | |
What happens to your request for additional requirements/needs, at state level? | |||||||
No feedback received | 11 | 27.5 | 8 | 15.7 | 19 | 20.9 | p < 0.001** |
Got approved as it was | 6 | 15 | 31 | 60.8 | 37 | 40.7 | |
Got approved with reduction of budget | 7 | 17.5 | 4 | 7.8 | 11 | 12.1 | |
Never gets approved | 5 | 12.5 | 2 | 3.9 | 7 | 7.7 | |
Others | 11 | 27.5 | 6 | 11.8 | 17 | 18.7 | |
Total | 40 | 100 | 51 | 100 | 91 | 100 | |
What is the frequency of financial audit? | |||||||
Quarterly | 46 | 92 | 34 | 63 | 80 | 76.9 | p < 0.001** |
Half yearly | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9.3 | 6 | 5.8 | |
Yearly | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.9 | |
Don’t know | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Others | 1 | 2 | 14 | 25.9 | 15 | 14.4 | |
Total | 50 | 100 | 54 | 100 | 104 | 100 | |
Any additional funds requested last year? | |||||||
Yes | 26 | 54.2 | 25 | 46.3 | 51 | 50 | p = 0.427 |
No | 22 | 45.8 | 29 | 53.7 | 51 | 50 | |
Total | 48 | 100 | 54 | 100 | 102 | 100 | |
If ‘yes’, for what purpose? | |||||||
Drugs | 8 | 34.8 | 11 | 44 | 19 | 39.6 | p = 0.036* |
Equipment | 5 | 21.7 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 14.6 | |
Personnel | 6 | 26.1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14.6 | |
Other purposes | 4 | 17.4 | 11 | 44 | 15 | 31.3 | |
Total | 23 | 100 | 25 | 100 | 49 | 100 |