New Delhi: India believes there is an urgent need to carry out “main reforms” in the World Health Organization to ensure timely, focused and effective response to future pandemic potential, UNI Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the meeting of the Ministers of Health from the State of Shanghai Cooperation (SCO) through video conferencing, he said the global crisis arising from the Covid-19 pandemic further exacerbated by a new virus that continued to grow, and highlighted the need for greater collaboration between countries -Negara about various health aspects to defeat him, said the Ministry of Health statement here.
“Therefore, it is desirable that we must continue to exchange experiences, learning, best practices and innovation to strengthen our public health system,” he said as quoted in the statement.
He said India worked widely to increase the core capacity to manage the current situation and ensure long-term interventions to mitigate such a future crisis.
The Minister added, “India – like many other countries – believe that there is an urgent need to carry out major reforms in the World Health Organization so that we can ensure timely, focused and effective responses for future pandemic potential.” He expressed hope that the work of the Independent Panel for the readiness and response of Pandemi, the Independent Supervision Committee and the International Health Regulatory Review Committee under the WHO Health Emergency program would be very important in directing towards a very necessary direction.
Multilateral cooperation in the global health sector, the statement said.
He also underlined the need to prioritize investment in public health.
“We need to conquer enemies with collaboration and by increasing their capacity, by collecting our resources and through enhanced technical support,” he said.
Vardhan observes Pandemic Coronavirus has handled a deep blow to SCO member countries in the field of health and economics.
He also said that India believed that in addition to bilateral discussions on this issue, a multilateral approach that would create an institutional framework for mobility of health workers was the need for hours.
“For example, India is currently collaborating with Japan and discusses with Britain and other countries from the EU about the nursing service exchange program,” he said.
The need to address the collective method to reduce global health risks and threats that appear using a ‘health’ approach to emphasized, the statement said.
Vardhan stated, “India has started the ‘Institute for One Health International Standards’ which can be used to have an international health center in India which will overcome existing or potential risks from the human-human system interface.” He also told the participants how India had used digital technology widely for inventory management and the distribution of covid vaccines that were on time.
India has also launched the ‘Maitri Vaccine’ to provide vaccines to partner countries, he said, and emphasized how the traditional Indian medical system has contributed substantially in increasing the general population immunity during Covid-19.
“Under the leadership of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has proposed the establishment of an expert working group on traditional medicine under the institutional framework of existing Shanghai cooperation organizations.
The draft for this effect was also circulated last year.
I took this opportunity to propose so that we must immediately hold it Meeting to discuss and complete the modalities of expert working group, “he said.
“This must be done at the warth so we can set the expert group far more superior to next year’s meeting,” he said as quoted in the statement.
He concluded his speech by underlining the historic relationship between the SCO nations connected by geography and enriched with cultural, cuisine and trade relations.
“I call you all today to remind each other from this modern relations rock.
This is for the sake of old friendship that we all have to stand together and work for their respective repairs and for the progress of the SCO region.
Only shared responsibility and joint idealism will help We achieve this mutual goal, “he said.
India believes there is an urgent need for large reforms in WHO: Minister of Health Harsh Vardhan
