Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the residents to be prepared to stop, put together and reply to the next health emergency whereas addressing the G20 Health Ministers assembly.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged the residents to be prepared to stop, put together and reply to the next health emergency. In a video message on the G20 Health Ministers assembly being held in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, PM Modi stated, “This is especially important in today’s interconnected world. As we saw during the pandemic, health issues in one part of the world can affect all other parts of the world in a very short time.”
The G20 Health Ministers’ assembly beneath India’s G20 Presidency is being held in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar from August 17-19. Notably, India assumed the presidency of the G20 on 1 December 2022.
While explaining the significance of holistic health, he stated that the worldwide celebration of the International Day of Yoga is a testomony to the common need for holistic health. He additional famous that Gujarat is a crucial step in establishing the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Center for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar.
“The holding of the WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine, along with the G20 Health Ministers meeting, will intensify efforts to harness its potential. It should be our joint effort to build a global repository for traditional medicine,” he added.
PM Modi additional stated that health and the setting are organically linked. He added that clear air, secure ingesting water, adequate diet, and safe shelter are main components of health. “The steps taken to address the threat of Anti-Microbial Resistance are also commendable. AMR is a grave risk to global public health and all pharmaceutical advancements so far. I am also glad that the G20 Health Working Group has prioritized ‘One Health’.”
He emphasised that the imaginative and prescient of ‘One Earth, One Health’ envisages good health for all the ecosystem, together with people, animals, vegetation and the setting. “This integrated view carries Gandhiji’s message of not leaving anyone behind,” he stated.
Additionally, he pressured the digital options and technological improvements to make our efforts equitable and inclusive. Nowadays, individuals from far and huge can obtain high quality care by means of tele-medicine.
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“India’s national platform, e-Sanjeevani, has facilitated 140 million telehealth consultations to date. India’s COWIN platform successfully facilitated the largest vaccination drive in human history. It managed the delivery of more than 2.4 billion vaccine doses and the real-time availability of globally verifiable vaccination certificates,” he stated.
Such world initiatives on digital health will deliver collectively varied digital health initiatives on a typical platform. “This initiative will allow countries in the Global South to close the gap in healthcare delivery. It will take us one step closer to our goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage,” PM Modi added.
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