With the participation of Syria, the World Health Assembly opens its 75th session today
The 75th session of the World Health Assembly will start today in Geneva, with the participation of Syria, and will continue until the 28th of May.
The meetings include designing policies for health systems and services, highlighting public health issues, emergency response and preparedness, including the Corona pandemic file.
The participants will raise many health issues such as surveillance and response to health emergencies, health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Golan, and related to tropical diseases, meningitis, diabetes, the global convention on tobacco control, ways to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, the eradication of cervical cancer, the global strategy on oral health, prevention of obesity and the promotion of mental health and others.
194 countries, including Syria, will participate in the session, in addition to representatives of non-governmental organizations, international bodies and donors.
The head of the Syrian delegation and Minister of Health, Dr. Hassan Al-Ghabash, referred to the importance of participation in order to enhance joint cooperation because of its positive effects on the health sector in Syria and the exchange of experiences and health experiences.
Minister Al-Ghubash pointed out that he will shed light in his statement during the opening session on the situation of the health sector in Syria and the efforts being made to meet the health needs of citizens in the conditions of the economic siege and the effects of the terrorist war that directly targeted the health sector.
Syria had previously participated in the 74th session of the World Health Assembly virtually in May of last year, when it was elected to the membership of the Executive Council of the World Health Organization representing the Eastern Mediterranean Region for a period of three years.
It is noteworthy that the World Health Assembly is the highest decision-making body in the World Health Organization and its main function is to define the organization’s policies, monitor its financial policies and approve budgetary issues. It is held once a year in Geneva, Switzerland.
O. al-Mohammad