A recent op-ed by Health Alliance International‘s Director of Advocacy, Julia Robinson, questions the priority of funding new technologies over growing countries’ work forces.
“Seattle leads in dreaming up gizmos, gadgets, and technologies for health care delivery in some of the areas of the world that could use them the most. And while these devices have the potential to save lives, by themselves these whiz-bang devices are useless. Pretty much all the interventions we’ve invented need human health workers to administer them. And these health workers are in dreadfully short supply in all low-income countries.”
Check out the full article on Humanosphere here.
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