International Development written question – answered at on 5 September 2011.
Tony Cunningham
Opposition Pairing Whip (Commons)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many additional (a) doctors, (b) nurses, (c) midwives and (d) other health workers his Department estimates will be required in Ethiopia to achieve his Department's target to increase the number of births delivered with the help of nurses, midwives or doctors to 500,000 by 2015.
Alan Duncan
The Minister of State, Department for International Development
The Department for International Development (DFID) is scaling up UK support for health service delivery in Ethiopia. One of the targets for this support is to ensure that 500,000 additional births are delivered by a skilled birth attendant by 2015.
DFID plans to support the delivery of the Government of Ethiopia's five year health sector programme to achieve this target. The Government of Ethiopia estimate the following projected need for additional health workers across Ethiopia in 2015.
| Baseline (2010) | Projected need (2015) | Additional health workers needed | |
| (a) Doctors (all specialists and general practitioners) | 2,152 | 16,024 | 13,872 |
| (b) Nurses | 20,109 | 41,009 | 20,900 |
| (c) Midwives | 1,379 | 8,635 | 7,256 |
| (d) Health officers | 3,760 | 6,345 | 2,585 |
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