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Need for coordinated global response to Covid: Dr Harsh Vardhan

Need for coordinated global response to Covid: Dr Harsh Vardhan

New Delhi, July 31 (UNI) Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday exhorted World Health Organisation (WHO) members "to forge multi-sectoral collaboration to mobilise and galvanise global response, support and cooperation to fight communicable and non-communicable diseases more effectively."
Presiding over a meeting of the Bureau of the Executive Board as Chairman of the Executive Board of WHO virtually, he spoke of the need to explore innovative ways to address new threats and challenges in the post-pandemic phase and the mutual "need to come together to be more responsive in terms of managing the new challenges being faced so as to ensure a timely, adequate and coordinated global response" to Coronavirus-19.
The world, he said, has now realised the importance of health and the need for greater cooperation among countries to tackle the risks and dangers being posed by innumerable communicable and non-communicable diseases. "In the era of globalisation, when the world is a large home to all humanity, the risk and challenge to spread of a disease is even bigger since it does not distinguish between boundaries of countries."
Recollecting the global crisis Covid 19 has unleashed, he said "It is about four months ago that the WHO declared the Covid-19 as pandemic. About 17 million people have been infected by COVID-19 and more than 662,000 precious lives have been lost worldwide due to this pandemic. The magnitude of the damage caused to the world economy is also immense."
At the outset, Dr Harsh Vardhan welcomed the participants to the first meeting of the Bureau of the Executive Board and wished them well during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He expressed his deepest condolences and concern at the loss of lives due to Covid-19 and offered sincere gratitude for the efforts of those on the frontline, an official release here said.
He subsequently gave the floor to Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General of WHO, for his comments and opened the session for the participants.
The Bureau includes the Vice Chairs of the Executive Board and the Director General of WHO. Observer participants and senior officials of WHO Headquarters were also present.
The agenda of the meet included finalisation of dates of 32nd session of Programme, Budget and Administration Committee (PBAC), and resumed sessions of 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA 73) and 147th Executive Board 147 (EB 147).
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