Pakistan Federal Minister of Health Nadeem Jan has said on Wednesday that he Epidemics They want a ‘Global Health Security Agenda’ based on a joint response to the pandemic, so that rich and poor countries alike can fight epidemics with the same resources.
On the occasion of the opening of the two-day Global Health Security Summit in Islamabad, Federal Health Minister Nadeem Jan, while talking to Independent Urdu, said that the purpose of this meeting is to discuss how to protect the population of the world from epidemics. can go.’
The caretaker federal health minister said that the prime minister has started the summit in the presence of UN and international experts and then the world accepted our stand.
“We want a global health security agenda where there is a shared response to pandemics so that middle-income countries can fight pandemics with the same resources that rich countries do.”
Representatives of at least 70 countries are participating in the two-day Global Health Security Summit held in Islamabad, where issues ranging from building global health security on a modern basis to dealing with health threats will be discussed.
This summit has been held in the federal capital at a time when in the country Corona Virus Four cases of the new variant JN1 have been reported.
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Addressing the opening ceremony of the summit, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar said that effective and joint measures are needed to prevent epidemics and monitoring is essential for improving the health system.
Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar said that ‘global health security is a major challenge of the present time. No matter how powerful any country in the world is, it is not easy to tackle health challenges alone.’
He said that Corona and Climate change The health of the citizens has been affected by the diseases that arose after Developed countries have the resources to deal with this type of situation, on the other hand developing countries have weak systems.
More than 33 million people have been affected by climate change and 17 thousand people have died while more than 30 billion dollars have been lost. The holding of the summit is the need of the hour.’
In his address, the caretaker health minister further said that the virus knows no borders. A better strategy is being formulated to keep the United Nations safe from diseases and at the end of this summit, after consultations, an action plan on health issues will also be presented.
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2024-08-27 11:49:12
