The military, the police and the Red Cross were assisting the aid effort with helicopters, ships and personnel, but bottlenecks meant aid continued to pile up in the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang and in the district of Sikakap in the Mentawai Islands, she said.
For example, DRC reported lack of skilled personnel in rural areas as a major bottleneck.
As programmes began to enrol increasing numbers of patients, it became clear that the lack of qualified health personnel, particularly in Africa, would prove to be a major bottleneck in increasing access to treatment [ 13].
But no one matched the executive she hired to resolve production bottlenecks, collect payments, get the payroll out and handle personnel problems.
But no one matched the executive she hired to unclog production bottlenecks, collect payments, get the payroll out and handle personnel problems.
As a result, the approach is expensive, a distraction to skilled personnel who represent a scarce resource in less developed countries, and is a frequent bottleneck in the provision of timely data (3).
Delays in finding the right personnel will not only eat up valuable time, but also lead to severe bottlenecks, like delayed roll-out of new products or services.
Bottlenecks, including roads blocked by debris, damaged vehicles and a lack of personnel, held up the distribution of relief supplies in the first week.
Almost all countries identified the lack of trained personnel in neonatal care in quantity and quality (knowledge, training, skills) and 10 out of 12 graded these bottlenecks as significant, with Afghanistan grading their bottlenecks as very major.
