“Preparing for the Next Pandemic: WHO Director General Urges Action”

2023-05-23 14:34:16

Caracas.- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned of the threat of “another emerging pathogen with even more deadly potential”, for which he calls on the international community to “prepare” for the possibility of new pandemics emerging.

“When the next pandemic arrives, which it will, we must be prepared to respond decisively, collectively and equitably,” he said.

According to the WHO, pandemics are far from the only threat humanity faces, but it took it for granted that new pathogens and new pandemics would arrive, which is why it urged world leaders to design a strategy to face these challenges. .

For the director of the WHO, the pandemic “has had a high cost for mental health.” “Many of our own employees, like many healthcare workers around the world, have experienced severe stress and burnout,” as “the pandemic has presented us with unprecedented challenges.”

Additionally, it also warned of another “emerging variant of Covid-19”, which would cause “new waves of illnesses and deaths”.

“The pandemic has thrown us off course, but it has shown us why the Sustainable Development Goals must remain our lodestar and why we must pursue them with the same urgency and determination with which we countered the pandemic,” he stresses.

With information from Mundo.es

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