DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 17 -- HEALTH service delivery facilities in the country face a critical shortage of human resources by 52 per cent, the Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, Children and Elderly, Ms Ummy Mwalimu, revealed yesterday.
In her welcoming remarks at a high level multi-sectoral meeting on human resources for health, the minister said the situation was due to the expansion and improved infrastructure, hence the need to come up with a solid solution.
"According to our staffing level guidelines, we were supposed to have 199,639 human resources at the health services delivery facilities but as of September 2019, we had only 98,978, which represents a shortage by 52 per cent" said Ms Mwalimu.
She cautioned that if ...