South African President Jacob Zuma and his French counterpart Francois Hollande will co-chair the United Nations Commission on Health Employment.
The two leaders met in Lyon France, and yesterday visited the Institute of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology, meeting the staff and sick children.
The commission aims to stimulate job growth in the health sector in developing countries, with the hope it will improve the country’s economy too.
The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that by 2030 there will be a shortfall of about 18 million healthcare workers in middle to low income nations, majorly because of growing and ageing populations.
President Zuma and Hollande will also co-chair a second meeting of the commission in New York in September before publishing a report by the end of 2016.
