At the UN agency’s annual meeting, the WHO leader hailed the “historic” resolution across countries to settle for meaningful budget construction and suggested they put mandatory reforms in place to prepare for the next pandemic.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was time to press ahead with negotiations to prevent the next pandemic in a speech delivered at the meeting weeks after the covid-19 pandemic ceased to be in a global state of emergency.
In a first speech to WHO member states, the director-general warned that the next pandemic “will come knocking on the door” and said: “We throw this box on the road. “
“If we don’t make the adjustments you want to make, then who will?And if we don’t bring them now, then when?” he said.
The annual 10-day World Health Assembly in Geneva, which coincides with WHO’s 75th anniversary, aims to address global well-being challenges by adding long-term pandemics, the destruction of polio and measures to alleviate the welfare crisis in Ukraine caused by Russia. attack.
The WHO’s 194 countries are lately implementing a pandemic treaty that will be at next year’s assembly.
“A commitment from this generation (to a pandemic agreement) is vital because it is this generation that experienced how lousy a small virus can be,” Tedros said.
At one meeting, nations approved a $6830 million budget for 2024-2025, a move that tested national commitments to establish a WHO investment style deemed too weak and too dependent on taxpayer fantasies.
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