Worldwide, there are 27.9 million nurses, this includes 19.3 million professional nurses, 6 million associate professional nurses and 2.6 million unclassified. The shortage of health workers still bites in Kenya and Africa generally. Read Now »As the effects of coronavirus bite in the country, the health workers in the frontline have little to celebrate today being World Health Day under the theme support nurses and midwives. WHO estimates that the world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. April 7 marks the celebration of World Health Day since the inception of the first Health Assembly in 1948.

Source: Standard Digital April 07, 2020 12:22 UTC