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Table 1 Health Management Committee prioritised dreams

From: Health management committee strengthening and community mobilisation through women’s groups to improve trained health worker attendance at birth in rural Nepal: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Dream

HMC dreams

HMC dreams achieved

Keep the HMC active

18

14

Increase health awareness in the community

18

12

Improve physical infrastructure

16

7

Procure equipment for maternal and newborn care

12

4

Upgrade the health facility (for example make an SHP an HP)

11

2

Provide 24-h/effective delivery services

10

9

Recruit an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife

10

8

Maintain a user friendly environment in the health facility

8

3

Start providing delivery services

8

5

Fill vacant posts

6

1

Buy an ambulance

8

1

Improve cleanliness and the physical environment of the health facility

6

2

Monitor and reward personnel and co-ordinate with other organisations

6

2

Ensure the mobilisation of the FCHV

5

3

Increase quality of health services

5

1

Monitor and maintain regular attendance of staff and maintain opening hours

4

2

Improve maternal and newborn health

4

2

Register land in the name of the health institution

3

0

Provide more services

3

2

Conduct a family planning campaign

2

2

Team building training for HMCs and health personnel

2

1

Increase financial transparency

1

1

Put up a notice board to track numbers of institutional deliveries

1

1