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Table 1 Type of personnel at Tanzanian regional hospitals

From: Disaster preparedness and response capacity of regional hospitals in Tanzania: a descriptive cross-sectional study

Staff type

Doctors

 Cadre

N = 830

%

Median (range)

  Assistant medical officers

352

42.4

12 (5–37)

  Clinical officers

211

25.4

7 (1–19

  General practitioners

192

23.1

4 (1–25)

  Obstetrician and gynaecologists

26

3.1

1 (0–2)

  Surgeons

19

2.3

0 (0–3)

  Internal medicine specialist

16

1.9

0 (0–2)

  Paediatricians

14

1.7

0 (0–2)

Nurses

 Cadre

N = 5390

%

Median (range)

  Health attendants

2061

38.2

90 (18–133)

  Enrolled nurses

1807

33.5

76 (9–160)

  Registered nurses

1445

26.8

54 (21–112)

  Nurse officer

77

1.4

2 (0–13)

Others

 Cadre

N = 202

%

Median (range)

  Laboratory technician

114

56.4

3 (1–15)

  Pharmacists

32

15.8

1 (0–4)

  Pharmacy assistant

32

15.8

2 (0–6)

  Laboratory technologist

24

11.9

0 (0–3)