Africa needs engineers and doctors
Africa needs engineers as much as doctors to stop people dying needlessly, according to the South African entrepreneur Ivor Ichikowitz. The industrialist says so many more people will survive if sanitation is made more effective, clean water better transported and other projects better maintained - that the importance of engineers to Africa should be put on a par with medical staff. Ivor Ichikowitz is the founder of Paramount Group , Africa's largest privately owned defence and aerospace business, which employs 1,500 people, including hundreds of highly skilled engineers. He said: "Across Africa, poor sanitation systems and environmental defences consistently lead to people requiring medical support, particularly during floods and droughts. "If we dedicated more engineers and investment to proactively tackling these problems in the first place then we could save many more lives across the continent and doctors could tackle other emergencies." According to