Amref Health Africa [to 7 March 2015]
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Amref Health Africa Expands Facilities to Train Health Workers – and Announces Plans for a University
Kenya’s Cabinet Mr James Macharia yesterday opened a newly constructed Annex at the Amref Health Africa Training Centre and Headquarters in Nairobi that will expand the organisation’s capacity to train health workers from across the continent.
The new building, funded by USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad programme at US$400,000, has a capacity of 215 students, as well as information and communications technology to support eLearning and mLearning…
…The Chair of Amref Health Africa’s International Board of Directors, Mr Omari Issa, announced that that the organisation’s International Board of Directors had decided to set up a university to train health workers.
The decision, he said, and construction of the new annex, were in line with Amref Health Africa’s plans to expand its training portfolio and increase access to health care training. “We are investing in training people because we recognise that people are the most important element of the health system.”