Table 2.
Human resources available for emergency and essential surgery per million population
| Occupational categories | Type of hospital | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District (n = 7) | Regional (n = 2) | General (n = 2) | Total (N = 11) | |
| Qualified surgeons | 3.65 | 0.77 | 3.83 | 8.25 |
| Qualified anesthesiologists physicians | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.33 | 1.33 |
| Qualified obstetrician/gynecologists | 2.19 | 3.08 | 2.00 | 7.26 |
| General doctors providing surgery | 8.75 | 0.77 | 0.33 | 9.85 |
| General doctors providing anesthesia | 5.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5.10 |
| Nurse/clinical/assistant officers providing anesthesia | 10.94 | 2.31 | 2.17 | 15.41 |
| Clinical/assistant officers providing surgery | 13.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.13 |
| Paramedics/midwives | 165.53 | 46.15a | 95.17 | 306.85 |
aOnly 1 regional hospital reported
Note: Missionary hospital not included in table due to skewed representation upon scaling to one million population