In his end-of-year message, the director general of the organization urged states to organize together to avoid new global health crises.
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The world has not learned all the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the message launched by the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Tuesday December 26. In his end-of-year message, the head of the WHO stressed that the year 2023 had marked a turning point in the fight against major health problems, but that not all States are prepared in the same way to the outbreak of new pandemics.
“The year 2024 offers a unique opportunity to close these gaps”he said, recalling that countries are negotiating the first-ever global agreement on pandemic threats. “The Pandemic Agreement is designed to address disparities in collaboration, cooperation and fairness”he added.
Since May, the alert level concerning Covid-19 has been lowered by one notch, because the WHO considers that this pandemic is under control. “This marked a turning point for the world after three years of crisis, suffering and loss for people around the world. I am happy to see that life has returned to normal”underlined Tuesday Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
