| Manpower requirements and cost of a national health service for Colombia, projected to 1975, are established at national, regional, rural, local, and university levels. Tables showing existing resources and estimated requirements at different development stages are included. The usefulness of auxiliary health workers and rural health promoters, who can be delegated a wide range of duties, is comparatively great, in view of the low outlay of time and money required to train them. Estimates for health personnel other than physicians are seen to decrease considerably when the rural service makes use of this manpower source. Priority should therefore be given to training such workers. |