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- Assessment of reproductive and child health services in Dispensaries under Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Central Diocese in Iramba District, Singida Region, Tanzania(St John's University of Tanzania, 2014-07-28) Edward, Ezekiel GyundaThe purpose of this study was to make assessment of reproductive and child health services (RCHS) provided by dispensaries under the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Central Diocese in Iramba district, Singida region, Tanzania” based in five years 2009 – 2013. A qualitative and quantitative approach, questionnaires, documentary and observation were used in this study. The total number of 80 respondents with gender balance of 40 male and 40 female were selected for the study. Five dispensaries from Iramba district were selected as the study sample. The data was analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The results of indicate that RCH Services were of good quality while on strengths (i) there is close and action - oriented supervision of all activities done by staff during official and emergency hours; (ii) there is positive mindset of staff aiming at rendering services effectively and efficiently; (iii) staff said that they were motivated by provision of extra hours allowances and sometime given off hours. On the side of capacity of dispensaries, it was found that every dispensary had only one mildwife out of the required two. Although there are many difficulties and a lot of challenges which were identified by this study, Reproductive and Child Health Services (RCHS) to the community are of fair quality, strength and capacity. However, these services are faced by number of challenges including Shortage of facilities; midwives; essential medicines; low salaries to workers; and lack of specialized RCH doctors together with ambulance and old buildings of dispensaries with dry water tap.