Ministry of Health says adopting Artificial Intelligence in healthcare systems and expanding internet connectivity in rural areas can enhance healthcare in Africa, including Malawi.
Principal Secretary in the Ministry, Dr Samson Mndolo, said this in Lilongwe during the opening of the regional dialogue on leveraging emerging technologies to improve healthcare delivery in Africa.
Executive Director for the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) Dr Eliya Zulu stressed on the need to ensure researchers and scientists from various universities in Africa conduct research that can transform African countries in areas of health and social economic development.
“Africa is growing and there is a need to take advantage of its youthful population to accelerate development agenda such as 2063 agenda,” Zulu said.
Scientists, researchers and policy makers from Malawi, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Gabon are among the participants patronising the two-day event where they are banging heads on how to use emerging technologies to improve healthcare delivery in the continent.
