Who adopts a pandemic agreement for a fair and safer world

The World Health Organization (WHO), has adopted the first pandemic agreement of the world to make the world more fair and safer by the future outbreaks of diseases.

The reference decision of the 78th World Health Assembly, Tuesday, is a point of over three years of intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and pushed by the lens of making the world safer and healthier.

The general manager of WHO, dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said with the agreement, the world will be safer, thanks to the leadership, collaboration and commitment of the Member States to adopt the historic pandemic agreement.

Dr. Ghebreyesus stressed that the agreement is a victory for public health, science and multilateral action, which will ensure that the world is collectively protected from pandemic threats.

“It is also a recognition by the international community that our citizens, companies and economies should not be left vulnerable to suffer losses such as those suffered during Covid-19,” he said.

The pandemic agreement adopted in a plenary session of the World Health Assembly followed the approval of the vote agreement, which was in favor of 124, 0 objections, 11 abstentions in the commission by the delegations of the Member State.

The Department of Health of the Philippines and the President of the World Health Assembly this year, which chaired the adoption of the agreement, dr. Teodoro Herbosa, said: “Starting from the peak of Covid-19 pandemic, the governments of all the corners of the world have acted with great purpose, dedication and urban and in doing so exercises of national exercises, to negotiate the historian who was adopted that has been adopted.

“Now that the agreement has been brought to life, we must all act with the same urgency to implement its critical elements, including systems to guarantee fair access to health products relating to life -saving pandemic.”