2020 Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Gambo General Rural Hospital and Ethiopia join the 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife and support the World Health Organization Objectives
“Nurses and midwives are the backbone of every health system: in 2020 we’re calling on all countries to invest in nurses and midwives as part of their commitment to health for all.”
– Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General
According the message of WHO Director, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Gambo Hospital and our MNCH Project we are going to invest in nurses and midwives as part of our commitment to achieve health fo all. We support that midwives and nurses are the backbone of Ethiopian health system, in fact, of all health systems.
18 million
- additional health workers needed to achieve UHC by 2030 in low and lower-middle income countries.
9 million
- additional nurses and midwives needed by 2030 to reach Sustainable Development Goal 3 on health.
