M.P Shah launches science to reduce shortage of healthcare workers in Kenya

sector. Kenya faces an acute shortage of nurses with just 60,000 nurses serving a population of more than 50 million Kenyans.

This makes it difficult for Kenya to achieve sustainable healthcare and ensure healthy lives for all.

KENYA – The M.P Shah Hospital has launched the M.P Shah Hospital School of Health Sciences to build capacity in the nursing profession as well as equip the nurses with the best practices of patient care, research, and innovation. The school was officially inaugurated by Mrs. Edna Tallam-Kimaiyo, CEO of the Nursing Council of Kenya, M.P. Shah Hospital Chairman Dr. Manoj Shah, Vice-Chairman Dr. Manilal Dodhia, and the hospital’s CEO Dr. Toseef Din.

Currently, there is a significant deficit of nurses in the healthcare

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The world has an estimated 28 million nurses, who make up about 60 percent of the global health sector professionals.

Even though nursing is the largest occupational group in the healthcare industry, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there is a global shortage of six million nursing professionals and the number is likely to rise to nine million by 2030. Africa and Asia are the worst hit continents by this crisis and the situation is getting worse, as the population grows faster than the rate of increase in graduates from nursing care training facilities.