AN official with the World Health Organization has urged African countries to improve their capacity for collection, processing and dissemination of health information. The WHO country representative Edward Maganu said in Lusaka on Tuesday while officially opening a four-day training course on the African Index Medicus that more often than not, African countries depend on foreign data bases to have access to health information, even on what is generated in their own land, Zambian newspaper the Post, reported on Wednesday. He commended the University of Zambia for organizing the training workshop whose aim was to improve Zambia’s capacity for collection, processing and dissemination of information.
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