Table 7.

Regional human resources for eye health (HReH) practitioner to population ratios in sub-Saharan Africa, estimated from different surveys

	V2020 target per million population	V2020 survey 2006	Resnikoff et al . survey [12] 2010	This survey 2011
Ophthalmologists	4	3.1	2.7	2.3
Cataract surgeons	10	11.4	-	6.0
OCOs			-
Ophthalmic nurses			-
Optometrists	20	3.7	-	3.7
Mid-level refractionists		-	-
CSR	2,000	662	-	515
Cataract surgeries per surgeon	500	-	-	180

Table legend: estimates presented in each survey and for each cadre come from different numbers and samples of countries [1,7]. Practitioner ratios for individual cadres estimated in this study are available in Table 1.