The African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) has called for urgent reforms to strengthen Africa’s health systems, highlighting the stark paradox of a continent that carries 25 percent of the global disease burden with only three percent of the world’s health workforce.
Dr. Aisha Umar, chief medical officer of AMCE, made the call at the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Annual General Meeting in Calabar.
Speaking on the theme “Strengthening Health Systems: From Ambition to Action,” Umar said the statistics are the daily realities of mothers, children, and entire communities being left behind; it is a crisis that demands immediate action. “These are not just statistics,” she told the audience of doctors, policymakers, and health leaders.