“Every health worker that leaves Africa means 700 people lose access to healthcare.” – Dr Jim Campbell, Director – Health Workforce WHO

As the UK-Africa Health Summit 2024 took place in London last week, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa Delegation was proud to partake in exploring the multifaceted dimensions of global health, from the challenges faced by the health workforce worldwide, persisting inadequate resourcing of health systems, to the growing movement of health professionals engaging in cross-border collaboration.

Sharing the realities of health workforce mobility and looking at the factors driving migration and its impact on healthcare delivery, ethics and the efforts being made to support and retain healthcare staff, including drawing on insights from the Global Health Workforce Programme recently launched by global health partnerships formerly THET with funding from the UK Department of Health and Social Care, which The Wellbeing Foundation Africa is a grantee of, the team shared their insight on partnership as the key to building on the THET 2021 report ‘From Drain to Gain,’ as we consider how to mobilise the voices of diaspora healthcare workers, empowering progress toward Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.

With this mission in mind, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Nigeria Advanced EmONC Competency-Based AOSS Curriculum Partnership Project will work to improve the availability of quality advanced #EmONC at national and sub-national hospitals by strengthening the capacity of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria to deliver advanced EmONC competency-based curriculum to resident doctors in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, aiming to strengthen the health workforce in Nigeria, and contributing to the #GHWP ambition of achieving more resilient health systems for post-pandemic recovery and supporting progress toward #UHC.

The #WBFA is committed to progressing collaborative approaches to health workforce upskilling and sustainability, with the vision for each person to have access to quality healthcare, through alliances that transcend borders as a vital tool for response.

 

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