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Challenges on The Medical Field

There is a shortage of medical staff in Zambia. In the whole country there are only 600 doctors and 8000 nurses. The Ministry of Health estimates that 16,000 nurses are needed. A number of factors cause this shortage, including:

• Limited number of nursing school
• The aids pandemic puts extra pressure on the healthcare in Zambia because of the extra care required but also because annually 3.5% of the nurses dies of HIV/AIDS related illnesses.

The IFC report: The business of Health in Africa states that the training of nurses in Sub-Sahara Afrika addresses one of the key problems in the healthcare sector and in this way contributes significantly of the capacity of the complete healthcare sector.