Table 2.
Distribution of doctors, nurses and dentists per 10 000 people in various Bangladeshi divisions
Doctors | Nurses | Dentists | All | Nurse per Doctor ratio |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Division | |||||
Barisal | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 3.08 | 0.5 |
Chittagong | 4.8 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 8.8 | 0.7 |
Dhaka | 10.8 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 14.2 | 0.2 |
Khulna | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.05 | 3.3 | 1.4 |
Rajshahi | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 0.5 |
Sylhet | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 0.1 |
Location | |||||
Rural | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.08 | 2.1 | 0.7 |
Urban | 18.2 | 5.8 | 0.8 | 24.9 | 0.3 |
Sex | |||||
Male | 4.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 5.0 | 0.05 |
Female | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.03 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
All | 5.4 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 7.7 | 0.4 |