[Africa In Fact]Africa is suffering from a major shortage of qualified doctors, nurses and other health workers. In its last global survey of health workers in 2006, the World Health Organisation (WHO) counted 1m doctors, nurses and midwives in 46 African countries, and a reported shortage of more than 800,000 in 36.
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