"of scant resources" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to something that doesn't have enough resources or is limited in some way. For example: "The charitable organization was struggling because of its limited staff and scant resources."
When in power the Taliban claimed that girls were being denied education only because of scant resources, a claim that Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, recently repeated.
However if call centres are poorly functioning, inequitable, or inefficient, this can lead to adverse health outcomes by missing an opportunity to reach underserved populations and wasting of scant resources.
Regrettably, their realisation hangs on scant resources and laboriously detailed laws and compromises.
"So when I say I don't want to see small time personal users prosecuted, it's because I don't think it is the best way of using of the scant resources of the police or the courts to tackle the harm caused by drugs.
Conventional wisdom might be, due to scant resources, all of these buckets are inadequately filled, but they all receive some attention.
"[A]t the point where Allenby struck the Turks themselves achieved a fair degree of concentration of their scant resources... [but] there was no secondary lines of defence nor were there any fall back positions in the event of a retreat.
Thanks to scant resources and minimal interest from ministers, though, little has been achieved and rampant exploitation at the low end of the income scale continues.
Two hundred directors are competing for scant resources, and I am in a position to look elsewhere.
7 Outbreaks in remote rural areas were of special concern, because of both scant resources and limited infrastructure to treat cases and implement cholera prevention activities.
To optimize utilization of the scant resources available, it is essential to conduct systematic economic evaluations of health interventions, as well as to develop an awareness of how these costs break down and are utilized.
The Norman invasion could not be forestalled, and their army seized Corfu, landed unopposed in Epirus and laid siege to Dyrrhachium, starting a decade of war which consumed the scant resources of the embattled Empire.
