Review Article
Improving Access to Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test in Niger State, Nigeria: An Assessment of Implementation up to 2013
Table 1
Staff strength in Niger State.
| | Category | Total in the state |
| | Doctors | 234 (public = 167, private = 67) | | Nurses/midwives | 2037 | | Lab scientists | 128 | | Lab technicians | 43 | | Pharmacists | 130 (public = 49, private = 81) | | Pharmacy technicians | 41 | | Trained role model caregivers (RMCs) | 400 | | Community health officers (CHOs) | 169 | | Community health extension workers (CHEWS) | 2779 | | Environmental health officers | 179 | | Social welfare workers | 214 | | Registered patent medicine vendors (PMVs) | 1200 |
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Source: NMCOP, 2013 [34].
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