Task shifting has been identified as a means to address the health worker crisis and improve access and cost-effectiveness in health systems . Task shifting, which dates back to the 1970s–1980s when auxiliary nurses took up the health care provider role, describes a strategy where some tasks that are normally performed by a physician or other specialized health staff are assigned to a health professional with a different or lower level of education and training, or to a person specifically trained to perform a limited task only, without having formal health education [14, 15]. Task shifting is a viable strategy in LMICs for the primary and secondary prevention of NCDs . Previous studies have shown that nurses are cheaper to employ and train than doctors, Furthermore, nurses are one of the largest groups of qualified health care providers . Task shifting has been shown to be cost-effective [17, 18].