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Health Systems Profile- Egypt Regional Health Systems Observatory- EMRO
Source: NICHP
It is difficult to draw too many conclusions from the 1997/2001 ratios. However, most
notable is the reduction in physicians in the urban governorates and the increase in the
frontier ratio. The increase in the physicians in the frontier areas may be due to the
incentive system introduced in 1997 for rural areas.
Table 7.1.5: Geographical distribution of MOHP physicians and nurses 2005
Governorates
numb
Physicians
Ratio
numb
Nurses
Ratio
Urban 9,188 19.90 11,977 12.32
Lower Egypt 20,828 45.12 52,780 54.30
Upper Egypt 14,970 32.43 28,764 29.59
Frontier 1,174 2.54 3,674 3.78
Total 46,160 100.00 97,195 100.00
Source: NICHP
The main features of this data are as follows.
• The high health personnel: population ratios in the frontier governorates. This
reflects the sparse nature of the population in these governorates and the
difficulty of providing health care to that population.
• The low ratios in Upper Egypt, where about one third of the population live
and where health status is worst.
• The continuing high number of nurses in Lower Egypt, which is a
consequence of the ready availability of training places for diploma nurses in
that region.
These aggregated figures for the four regions do not show the true nature of the
variations between different parts of Egypt, since there are major variations within these
four regions. The distribution of physicians and nurses (employed by the MOHP) by
governorate is shown in figure 4.
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