Table 2 Category and number of health workers at government Primary Health Care Centers in Zamfara and Kano States
From: Assessment of health service delivery parameters in Kano and Zamfara States, Nigeria
Designation | Kano State | Zamfara State | ||||||||||||||||
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Health Post N = 276 n (%) | Health Clinic N = 43 n (%) | Primary Health Centre N = 116 n (%) | Health Post N = 396 n (%) | Health Clinic N = 90 n (%) | Primary Health Centre N = 153 n (%) | |||||||||||||
Actual | Expected | Gap | Actual | Expected | Gap | Actual | Expected | Gap | Actual | Expected | Gap | Actual | Expected | Gap | Actual | Expected | Gap | |
Doctors | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 4 (0.5) | – |  | 18 (1.3) | 116 | 98 | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – |  | 1 (0.1) | 153 | 152 |
Nurses | 1 (0.1) | – | – | 23 (2.9) | 86 | 39 | 28 (2.0) | 464 | 355 | 2 (0.2) | – | – | 4 (0.9) | 180 | 175 | 7 (0.5) | 612 | 536 |
Midwife | 9 (1.3) | – | – | 24 (3.1) | 81 (5.8) | 6 (0.7) | – | – | 1 (0.2) | 69 (4.6) | ||||||||
Pharmacist | 8 (1.2) | – | – | 3 (0.4) | – | – | 9 (0.6) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 1 (0.1) | – | – |
Lab. Scientist | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 3 (0.4) | – | – | 14 (1.0) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – |
CHO | 5 (0.7) | – | – | 13 (1.7) | – | – | 32 (2.3) | 116 | 84 | 4 (0.4) | – | – | 5 (1.1) | – | – | 32 (2.2) | 153 | 121 |
CHEW | 151 (22.0) | – | – | 210 (27.0) | 86 | + 124 | 344 (24.5) | 348 | 4 | 244 (27.2) | – | – | 107 (23.1) | 180 | 73 | 257 (17.4) | 459 | 202 |
JCHEW | 166 (24.2) | 276 | 110 | 115 (14.8) | 172 | 57 | 187 (13.3) | 696 | 509 | 165 (18.4) | 396 | 231 | 56 (12.1) | 360 | 304 | 138 (9.3) | 918 | 780 |
Lab. Technicians | 18 (2.6) | – | – | 35 (4.5) | – | – | 107 (7.6) | 116 | 9 | 34 (3.8) | – | – | 25 (5.4) | – | – | 156 (10.6) | 153 |  |
Pharmacy Technicians | 4 (0.6) | – | – | 19 (2.4) | – | – | 46 (3.3) | 116 | 70 | 7 (0.8) | – | – | 12 (2.6) | – | – | 40 (2.7) | 153 | 113 |
Record officer | 16 (2.3) | – | – | 30 (3.8) | – | – | 60 (4.3) | 116 | 56 | 34 (3.8) | – | – | 31 (6.7) | – | – | 102 (6.9) | 153 | 51 |
Health attendant | 105 (15.3) | 276 | 171 | 113 (14.5) | 86 | Â | 161 (11.5) | 232 | 71 | 143 (15.9) | 396 | 253 | 95 (20.5) | 180 | 85 | 221 (15.0) | 306 | 85 |
Health assistant | 32 (4.7) | – | – | 35 (4.5) | – | – | 84 (6.0) | 232 | 148 | 127 (14.1) | 396 | 269 | 69 (14.9) | 180 | 111 | 254 (17.2) | – | – |
Environmental Health Officer | 145 (21.1) | – | – | 133 (17.1) | – | – | 179 (12.7) | 116 |  | 128 (14.3) | – | – | 44 (9.5) | – | – | 158 (10.7) | 153 |  |
Lab. Assistant | 11 (1.6) | – | – | 12 (1.5) | – | – | 46 (3.3) | – | – | 3 (0.3) | – | – | 11 (2.4) | – | – | 29 (2.0) | – | – |
Lab. Attendant | 8 (1.2) | – | – | 2 (0.3) | – | – | 5 (0.4) | – | – | 1 (0.1) | – | – | 3 (0.6) | – | – | 7 (0.5) | – | – |
Pharmacy assistant | 8 (1.2) | – | – | 4 (0.5) | – | – | 5 (0.4) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 0 (0.0) | – | – | 5 (0.3) | – | – |
Total | 687 (100.0) | Â | Â | 778 (100.0) | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 898 (100.0) | Â | Â | 463 (100.0) | Â | Â | 1477 (100.0) | Â | Â |