The impact of the shortage of doctors in sub-Saharan countries can be minimised by thinking outside conventional training to fill the gap. One novel solution is task-shifting, which has successfully been implemented in Southern Sudan by redistributing duties normally performed by doctors to clinical officers. In this paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Dr Peter Ngatia and Victoria Kimotho present a study that traces the progress of clinical officers who have graduated from the National Health Training Institute in Maridi.
The ‘Doctors’ of Southern Sudan
