About 26.57 percent of doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and pharmacists (health workers) are unemployed despite severe staff shortages facing African hospitals and clinics. Despite a tripling of the overall health worker stock from 1.6 million in 2013 to 5.1 million in 2022—according to the
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