Table 1 The density of health personnel-to-population per 1,000, per region and Gini index per cadre.2011
Occupation regions | General public health personnel | Physicians | Nurses | Paramedics | Pharmacist | Administration | Social assistant agents | Community pharmacist agents | Support staff | Ratio of nurses per physician per region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adamawa | 0.84 | 0.04 | 0.59 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 15.7 |
Centre | 1.97 | 0.18 | 0.92 | 0.27 | 0.01 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 5.00 |
East | 1.35 | 0.06 | 0.85 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.11 | 14.50 |
Extreme North | 0.78 | 0.02 | 0.40 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.18 | 20.00 |
Littoral | 1.29 | 0.10 | 0.66 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.28 | 6.400 |
North | 0.50 | 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 21.50 |
North West | 1.05 | 0.04 | 0.50 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.22 | 12.30 |
West | 1.72 | 0.05 | 0.97 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.29 | 19.00 |
South | 1.36 | 0.08 | 0.80 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 10.60 |
South West | 1.69 | 0.05 | 0.87 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.46 | 16.00 |
Total | 1.29 | 0.07 | 0.67 | 0.16 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.24 | 9.10 |
Gini Index | 0.3535 | 0.5278 | 0.3077 | 0.3662 | 0.5764 | 0.5072 | 0.504 | 0.3523 | 0.4276 | - |