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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusalso condemned the “dangerously short-sighted” cycle of throwing cash at outbreaks but doing nothing to prepare for the next one, in a video message marking Sunday’s first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness.
The Covid emergency won’t be the last pandemic, and endeavors to improve human health are “doomed” without handling environmental change and creature government assistance, the World Health Organization’s chief said.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned censured the “dangerously short-sighted” pattern of tossing money at episodes however never helping to get ready for the following one, in a video message denoting Sunday’s first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness.
The WHO chief general said the time had come to take in the exercises from the Covid-19 pandemic.
“For too long, the world has operated on a cycle of panic and neglect,” he said.
“We throw money at an outbreak, and when it’s over, we forget about it and do nothing to prevent the next one. This is dangerously short-sighted, and frankly difficult to understand.”
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board’s September 2019 first yearly report on world availability for health crises – distributed a couple of months before the novel Covid broke out – said the planet was woefully not ready for conceivably destroying pandemics.
“History tells us that this will not be the last pandemic, and epidemics are a fact of life,” said Tedros.
” The pandemic has highlighted the intimate links between the health of humans, animals and planet,” he added.
” Any efforts to improve human health are doomed unless they address the critical interface between humans and animals, and the existential threat of climate change that’s making our earth less habitable,” he said.
World ‘turned upside-down‘
The epic Covid has killed at any rate 1.75 million individuals and almost 80 million cases have been recorded since the episode arose in China last December, as per a count from authentic sources accumulated by AFP.
“In the past 12 months, our world has been turned upside-down. The impacts of the pandemic go far beyond the disease itself, with far-reaching consequences for societies and economies,” said Tedros.
Yet, the Ethiopian previous health minister said the Covid emergency ought not have come as a shock, given the rehashed admonitions.
We must all learn the lessons the pandemic is teaching us,” he said.
Tedros said all nations ought to put resources into readiness abilities to forestall, recognize and relieve crises, everything being equal, and called for more grounded essential medical services arrangement.
The UN health agency’s chief said that with interests in general wellbeing, “we can ensure that our children and their children inherit a safer, more resilient and more sustainable world”.
The International Day of Epidemic Preparedness was called for by the United Nations General Assembly to advance the significance of avoidance, readiness and organization in handling plagues.
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