Kenya: Experts Push Open Health Data for Emergencies

Nairobi — Researchers from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust in Kilifi and the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp have called for the urgent creation and maintenance of open, regularly updated health facility databases to support better healthcare delivery across Africa.

The researchers say that many African countries still lack centralised, accessible listings of their health facilities, undermining efforts to allocate resources, coordinate emergency responses, and manage disease outbreaks.

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