SEARO Q58

Country	Clinicians	Epidemiologists	Laboratorians	Entomologists/ vector control specialists	Support staff
Bangladesh
Bhutan	1	1	4	2	4
India				50
Indonesia
Maldives	3	1	5	1	6
Myanmar		1	1	1	2
Nepal	1		1	1	1
Sri Lanka	10	3	0	2	50
Thailand
Timor-Leste	16	1	0	0	8

Country	Clinicians	Epidemiologists	Laboratorians	Entomologists/vector control specialists	Support staff
Bangladesh
Bhutan	1.0	2.00	2.0	6.00	12
India		724.00	1,000.0	728.00	4,000
Indonesia
Maldives	0.0	1.00	1.0	1.00	2
Myanmar		1.00	5.0	15.00	4
Nepal	2.0	1.00	3.0	3.00	3
Sri Lanka	10.0	4.00	1.0	2.00	50
Thailand
Timor-Leste	0.5	0.75	0.5	0.75	1

Country	Response
Bangladesh
Bhutan	Vector-borne Disease Control programme oversees the vector surveillance and public health measures at the national level, such as training of health workers/surveillance workers and entomological suvriellance. The staff reflected on above is just a requirement for the vector-borne disease control program. There is a plan to establish a Center for Vector-borne and Zoonotic Disease in the country, where we require more specialized staff and require more staff. Royal Center for Disease Control does all quality control of the laboratory test; disease notification and declaration of the outbreak and its response plan. RCDC might require more lab. technologist with advanced skills in the future.
India	Every district in the country should have one entomologist and one entomologist.(there are 718 districts in the country). In addition, NVBDCP,HQ and state HQ should have at least 10 entomologist and 6 epidemiologist.
Indonesia
Maldives	Re-deployed for COVID.
Myanmar
Nepal	However, only related staffs at the national level only will not address the problem. Fixed term staff at the provincial and district level with entomological background is required.
Sri Lanka	Laboratorian needed is a molecular biologist.
Thailand
Timor-Leste