
Sabirah Musfirat is a freelance writer.

A child's future does not begin on the first day of school. By the time a child walks into a classroom, some of the most important foundations for learning, health and development have already been established. They begin during pregnancy and continue through the first two years of life, a period widely recognised as the first 1,000 days.

AI is entering healthcare at unprecedented speed, but its greatest value may not be replacing human expertise. It may be freeing doctors and nurses from administrative work so they can spend more time doing what technology cannot: caring for patients.