PIP: This document provides detailed information on the health facilities and manpower of the Cap-Vert region of Senegal. The Cap-Vert region is the most developed of Senegal and contains .3% of the territory but 21% of the population. Its 1,200,000 residents have much higher incomes and literacy rates than are found in the remainder of the country. Cap-Vert is divided into 3 health areas with 18 auxiliary health posts or dispensaries and 30 municipal health posts and dispensaries, in addition to 2 Red Cross posts, 10 health services affiliated with religious groups, and 13 other posts. Each center has at least 1 nurse and 18 physicians are attached to them as a group. Their function is to provide general medical care. 59 private general medical practitioners and 39 specialists also offer services. The region contains state, municipal and private hospitals. Preventive facilities include 23 maternal-child health centers; the institute of social hygiene, which provides tuberculosis and venereal disease surveillance and ambulatory care for some ailments; a service for epidemic diseases; medical care for schools; the bureau of health education; the Pasteur Institute which provides laboratory tests, produces vaccines, and conducts research and teaching programs; and municipal health services. Drugs are provided without charge in public hospitals but not in private facilities. The density of curative and preventive services is the greatest in Senegal, but it does not compensate for the budgetary shortages and the problems created by a suboptimal standard of personnel. Availability of health care varies widely according to socioeconomic level and ability to pay. The private system covers about 400,000 persons, the semipublic system based on Catholic-run health posts covers about 450,000 persons, and the state system covers about 350,000 persons totally and another 150,000 or so who also use the private services intermittently. The share of health costs assumed by the recipients of health care in the form of fees and payments is helpful although it falls far short of the total and should perhaps be increased.