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Table 5 Estimates of physician and "substitute" stocks – selected countries

	Current available estimates of practicing cadres
Country	Clinical officer/Medical assistants	Assistant medical officer (postbasic)	Doctors
Ghana	442^@	0	*1600
Tanzania	Not available	Not available	Not available
Kenya	4300^# (2300 in public sector)	N/A	*4900 (1200 in public sector)
Malawi	442^#		315
Mozambique	627(basic cadre)^@	301 (postbasic)^@	278^@
Central African Rep.	182		121
Uganda (1991)	750	0	671
Zambia	1458	40 (CO anesthetists)	900 (approx)

^# Includes both "basic" and "postbasic" cadre types; ^@ public sector figures only. Data on this table are from: Zambia: WHO Representative's Office; Ghana Health Service HRD Database Kenya Medical Training Centre, Nairobi; Mozambique: CIHI Country Health Profile Series. Country Health Profile-1995. Center for International Health Information. 1601 N. Kent Street, Suite 1014. Arlington, VA 22209.; Uganda: CIHI Country Health Profile Series. Country Health Profile-1995.

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