TABLE 2.

Ministry of Health and Regional Government workforce deployment by group

Group	Employed	Contracted (additional)	Contracted (pre‐COVID)	3rd party provider	Total
Medical	19,884	4,640	4,632	2,409	31,565
Nurse	25,166	6,467	9,018	2,133	42,784
Midwife	12,144	1,272	3,363	799	17,578
Professional assistant	13,612	2,777	5,562	2,089	24,040
Technical assistant	46,840	8,325	13,076	4,751	72,992
Administrative	23,139	2,639	20,774	13,863	60,415
Total	140,785	26,120	56,425	26,044	249,374

Notes: Data to August 2020.

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