The impact of an emergency hiring plan on the shortage and distribution of nurses in Kenya: the importance of information systems
JM Gross, PL Riley, R Kiriinya, C Rakuom, R Willy, A Kamenju, E Oywer, D Wambua, A Waudo & MF Rogers
Volume 88, Number 11, November 2010, 824-830
Table 1. Home, training and deployment provinces of nurses recruited under the Emergency Hiring Plan in Kenya, 2005–2009
| Province | Number of nurses by province |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home |
Training |
Deployment |
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| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| Nairobi | 92 | 5 | 75 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| Central | 276 | 15 | 312 | 17 | 140 | 8 |
| Coast | 74 | 4 | 75 | 4 | 218 | 12 |
| Eastern | 331 | 18 | 312 | 17 | 329 | 18 |
| North Eastern | 18 | 1 | 70 | 4 | 160 | 9 |
| Nyanza | 367 | 20 | 349 | 19 | 629 | 34 |
| Rift Valley | 477 | 26 | 441 | 24 | 224 | 12 |
| Western | 201 | 11 | 202 | 11 | 129 | 7 |
| Total | 1836 | 100 | 1836 | 100 | 1836 | 100 |