Harnessing healthcare to build the ‘Africa we want’
On 16 May, ahead of Africa Day 2022, the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) hosted a celebration with the theme “The Future of Healthcare in Africa”. The hybrid event featured talks from key figures from Africa’s healthcare sector as well as live performances from some of the continent’s most popular acts.
Presented online as well as in the Neuroscience Institute Auditorium, the event was facilitated by the UCT FHS in collaboration with the Pan-African Health Sciences Forum, the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Neuroscience Institute and the Global Surgery Division.
Africa Day, which takes place on 25 May, was instituted with the aim of providing a day on which to celebrate the cultural identity and common heritage of continental Africans. In line with this, according to the head of Global Surgery, Associate Professor Salome Maswime, the FHS’s aim was to reflect on the current state and future of healthcare in Africa, highlighting some of the successes and challenges we face “as optimists who are committed to building our continent”.
