Ministry targets 130k health workers by 2028

The government is targeting to recruit approximately 130 000 workers from the current 64 000 amid chronic shortage of specialists in the health sector.

This was revealed by Health and Child Care minister Douglas Mombeshora at Umboe Clinic in Makonde district during a visit by a World Health Organisation (WHO) delegation last week.

Mombeshora said the situation was not looking good as the government was finding it difficult to retain even community health workers to help in the fight against cervical cancer.

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