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WHO asks for 2.5 billion dollars to respond to health emergencies in 2023

The World Health Organization has insisted that there are currently 54 ongoing health crises around the world.

The World Health Organization wants to raise $2.54 billion this year to respond to an unprecedented number of health emergencies occurring simultaneously around the world.

The war and its devastating effects on the civilian population, in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria or even Ethiopia collide with catastrophes linked to climate change such as the floods that covered a third of Pakistan with water or the drought and food insecurity that devastates the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, insists the WHO.

He points out that this is happening in health networks that are weakened or even bloodless after three years of the Covid-19 pandemic and the arrival of a wave of cholera and measles epidemics.

“We are witnessing an unprecedented convergence of crises that demand an unprecedented response,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

“The world cannot look the other way and expect these crises to resolve themselves,” he warned.

54 health crises in the world

According to Dr. Tedros, the organization he leads is currently responding to 54 health crises around the world, 11 of which were classified as the highest possible level of emergency, requiring a large-scale response.

Jarno Habicht, WHO representative in Ukraine, noted at the launch of the funding appeal that the conflict-torn country has suffered more than 700 attacks on health facilities, including attacks on hospitals and ambulances, since Russia launched its invasion. on a large scale. on February 24.

At the same time, massive attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine “mean that health facilities cannot perform their functions properly,” Jarno Habicht said, noting that they often function without electricity, heating or water in “very difficult circumstances.”

The many health emergencies are taking place as the need for humanitarian aid in general is skyrocketing. The UN has estimated that a record 339 million people around the world will need some form of emergency assistance this year, an increase of almost a quarter over 2022.

“Specialist medical supplies and skills are needed immediately, if we are not to leave the sick to disasters, disease and death,” said former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is UK Ambassador for WHO Funding. Global Health.

“I want to plead with donors to respond urgently to fund vaccines, treatments, equipment and medical expertise,” he said.

And to add: “Inject hope, inject optimism, vaccinate us against more preventable deaths.”

Author: PT with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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