"deficiency of resources" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which there are not enough resources available to meet needs or requirements. For example, "The country is facing a severe deficiency of resources to adequately provide health care to all its citizens."
If the effect is caused by a staff deficiency and a lack of resources, one would expect poorer quality and safety at all out of hours periods during the week, including bank holidays and weekday evenings and nights.
The lack of studies from Middle Africa is likely to reflect lack of resources, poor health infrastructure and deficiency of trained medical professionals.
Moreover, diverse usage of plants and reduced land for cultivation in the world accelerated the deficiency of plant resources.
The reuse of treated sewage for irrigation is considered as an important alternative water source in the new water management strategy of the countries that face a severe deficiency of water resources such as the Middle East countries.
Healthcare in Malawi, as in other developing countries is hampered by chronic lack of resources [ 4], severe human resource deficiencies [ 5, 6] and inadequate material resources essential for healthcare.
However, since this is a cross sectional survey, the question remains open whether it is lack of resources that generates poor quality or if other system deficiencies are interpreted as a lack of resources among the staff.
In large part this lack of understanding stems from a general deficiency of genetic resource or difficulty in quantifying migratory traits in migratory species.
Deficiency of surface water resources in semi-arid area makes the groundwater the most preferred resource to assure population increased needs.
Due to the deficiency of the spectrum resources and to support the predicted enormous wireless traffic explosion in future, it is important to make full use of the existing radio resources.
In addition, the successful incorporation of OSCE in the undergraduate medical curriculum by the faculty of National University at Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, despite the deficiency of technological and staffing resources, demonstrates that initiatives can be taken in resource-limited environments as well [ 23].
Drugs and equipment for advanced care were mostly absent, but this should be seen rather as a rational prioritisation of resources than as a deficiency.
