A total of 275 professional health workers of ten (10) different cadres were recruited under three years contract (2007 – 2010) and deployed in fifty two (52) rural districts...
under the Mkapa Fellows Program and Emergency hiring Project. One of the two programs’ objectives is to mainstream 70% of the deployed health workers into the public service in the same underserved rural districts.
To date out of 212 retained health workers under the two projects 127 (60%) are mainstreamed into the public service in 40 Local Government Authorities, twenty nine (29) of them being beneficiary districts and eleven (11) Non beneficiary districts. In addition, 81(95%) of the remaining health workers have requested to be mainstreamed into the government system for the FY 2010/2011.
The programs implementation strategy that is operating within the existing government’s structures and systems was one of the key attribute to this achievement without undermining the critical impact of effective attraction strategies as a potential ladder of deploying trained health workers into the rural settings.
