Table 5

Estimates of physician and "substitute" stocks – selected countries


Current available estimates of practicing cadres

Country
Clinical officer/Medical assistants
Assistant medical officer (postbasic)
Doctors

Ghana
442@
0
*1600
Tanzania
Not available
Not available
Not available
Kenya
4300# (2300 in public sector)
N/A
*4900 (1200 in public sector)
Malawi
442#

315
Mozambique
627(basic cadre)@
301 (postbasic)@
278@
Central African Rep.
182

121
Uganda (1991)
750
0
671
Zambia
1458
40 (CO anesthetists)
900 (approx)

# Includes both "basic" and "postbasic" cadre types; @ public sector figures only. Data on this table are from: Zambia: WHO Representative's Office; Ghana Health Service HRD Database Kenya Medical Training Centre, Nairobi; Mozambique: CIHI Country Health Profile Series. Country Health Profile-1995. Center for International Health Information. 1601 N. Kent Street, Suite 1014. Arlington, VA 22209.; Uganda: CIHI Country Health Profile Series. Country Health Profile-1995.

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