Table 5.
Surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia (SOA) workforce.
| Country |
Fiji |
Vanuatu |
Tonga |
Palau |
Cook Islands |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital level | RH | FL | RH | FL | RH | FL | RH | RH |
| Surgeons | 25 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Obstetricians & Gynaecologists | 21 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Anaesthetists/anaesthesiologists | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Non-physicians providing surgery | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Non-physicians providing caesarean sections | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Non-physicians providing anaesthesia | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Midwives | 98 | 115 | 33 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Surgical Nurses | 169 | 34 | 39 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 13 | NA |
| Pharmacists | 33 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Biomedical Technicians | 15 | 2 | 0.25a | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Radiologists | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pathologists | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.5a | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| National total SOA number | 63 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 4 | |||
| National SOA Density (Per 100,000) | 7.1 | 5.0 | 9.9 | 49.7 | 22.9 | |||
FL: first-level hospital; NA: not available; RH: referral hospital; SOA: surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia.
a
Part-time personnel was counted based on their full-time equivalent.