NAIROBI, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,000 nursing healthcare professionals from across Africa as well as the United States and Britain will meet in Nairobi next week to discuss ways of improving healthcare in the region, organizers said on Thursday.
The five-day East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing conference which will open in Nairobi on Monday is organized by the Engineering Council of South Africa in partnership with Amref Health Africa Institute of Capacity Development.
Amref Health Africa in Kenya Country Director, Meshack Ndirangu, said the conference will provide insightful recommendations on how to scale up universal health coverage, including the integration of community health volunteers into the formal health system.
The conference will enable nursing healthcare professionals together to share experiences, research findings and foster networks and linkages that can help to improve health outcomes across Africa.
