A cross-sectional survey of emergency and essential surgical care capacity among hospitals with high trauma burden in a Central African country

Table 2 Human resources available for emergency and essential surgery per million population

Occupational categories	Type of hospital
Occupational categories	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	46.15^a	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

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