Wales | Sierra Leone | |
Doctors | 5,500 | 308 |
Registered nurses | 21,400 | 1,375 |
Total Trained health workers | 49,000 | 3,736 |
Health workers : population | 1 : 63 | 1 : 1,705 |
As I understand it, urban hospitals in Freetown lose their staff to hospitals abroad; District hospitals lose their staff to Freetown; community clinics can't find any trained staff so are staffed by assistants who have little training, supported by volunteers, who have virtually none. Add to that the lack of basic infrastructure and supplies, and may be I can start to glimpse the scale of the challenge.
