From: Technical efficiency of provincial public healthcare in South Africa
Province | Pupil auxiliary nurses | Student nurses | Enrolled nurses | Nursing assistants | Professional nurses | Medical practitioners | Medical researchers | Medical specialists | Other | Total | % of total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eastern Cape | 356 | – | 3263 | 5260 | 10,993 | 1903 | 1 | 177 | 6210 | 28,163 | 12 |
Free State | 76 | – | 939 | 1972 | 2295 | 664 | 5 | 293 | 2954 | 9198 | 4 |
Gauteng | 823 | 2902 | 7694 | 6518 | 14,223 | 3614 | 13 | 1929 | 12,034 | 49,750 | 22 |
KwaZulu-Natal | 512 | 951 | 9926 | 5976 | 17,163 | 3383 | 120 | 808 | 12,480 | 51,319 | 22 |
Limpopo | 64 | 470 | 4085 | 4731 | 9409 | 1248 | 12 | 60 | 12,389 | 32,468 | 14 |
Mpumalanga | 67 | 749 | 1881 | 1431 | 5471 | 1079 | 1 | 78 | 7687 | 18,444 | 8 |
Northern Cape | 116 | – | 237 | 864 | 1520 | 457 | 2 | 21 | 3070 | 6287 | 3 |
North West | 49 | 21 | 958 | 2489 | 4511 | 934 | – | 116 | 6842 | 15,920 | 7 |
Western Cape | 225 | – | 2608 | 4152 | 5314 | 1719 | 6 | 1345 | 5622 | 20,991 | 9 |
Total | 2288 | 5093 | 31,591 | 33,393 | 70,899 | 15,001 | 160 | 4827 | 64,965 | 228,217 | 100 |