Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus


Гео и язык канала: США, Английский
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Director-General of the World Health Organization; working towards healthier, safer, fairer world for all.

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My colleagues and I are heartbroken at the tragic loss of another one of our own in an airstrike in Syria this morning, engineer Emad Shehab. We extend our deepest condolences to his family.

Emad served as the WHO water and sanitation focal point in Deir-ez-Zor. His untimely death is a stark reminder of the ongoing violence and suffering endured by the people of Syria. He will be greatly missed.


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Over the weekend, a WHO team managed to evacuate two six-year-old patients from Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza -- to receive care abroad. One child has cystic fibrosis, the other has leukemia. Two caregivers were evacuated with them.

We repeat our appeal for sustained and safe medical transfers and ensure all children and sick patients in need of urgent care have a chance to survive. Ceasefire!


Each day, tuberculosis kills over 3500 people, and the disease strikes close to 30,000 more.

To mark World TB Day, WHO is launching a new investment case outlining the health and economic rationale for investing in evidence-based interventions to #EndTB, as part of every country’s journey towards universal health coverage. 

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240091252


Report from a doctor in Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza via a UN colleague:

- 50 health workers (most of them junior or volunteers) and 143 patients all kept in one building since the second day of the raid, with extremely limited food, water and only one nonfunctional toilet;
- patients are in critical condition, many lying on the floor. Three patients in need of intensive care. Two patients on life support died due to a lack of electricity;
- ⁠patients have no companions or care takers;
- no basic medical supplies, no dressing, no medicines available;
- ⁠health workers have requested urgent patient referrals.

Hostilities can be heard in vicinity of the hospital.

Health workers are worried about their own and their patients’ safety.

These conditions are utterly inhumane. We call for an immediate end to the siege and appeal for safe access to ensure patients get the care they need.

Ceasefire!


WHO and partners have lost contact with health personnel at Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza since the ongoing raid began, and we are seeking information on the patients’ condition and if they are receiving needed care.

Accessing Al-Shifa is now impossible, and there are reports of health workers being arrested and detained.

A planned mission to Al-Shifa today had to be cancelled due to lack of security.

The ongoing situation could impact the hospital’s ability to function, even minimally, and deprive people of critical, lifesaving care.

We repeat once again: hospitals are not battlegrounds. They must be protected in line with international humanitarian law.


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Rafiq is one of many children and young people in northern Gaza who are starving and suffering from grievous injuries.

History will judge us all for what these children are enduring.

Ceasefire! Allow immediate, unfettered, scaled-up humanitarian access.


Today, I took part in the EU-AU High-Level meeting on Health in Brussels. My ask to both EU Commission, African Union and their Member States is to continue prioritising health in their policies and investment.

I urged them to work together to find common ground and conclude a strong pandemic agreement in time for the World Health Assembly.

I used the opportunities to meet with Belgium’s Minister Caroline Gennez, EU Commissioners Stella Kyriakides, Jutta Urpilainen, Janez Lenarcic to discuss joint health priorities, as well as WHO’s response to dire health crises in Gaza and Sudan.
 
Together, we can realise health as a right for more people, and narrow the inequities that deprive people of it.




I’m gravely concerned about reports of an Israeli plan to proceed with a ground assault on Rafah. Further escalation of violence in this densely populated area would lead to many more deaths and suffering, especially with health facilities already overwhelmed. #Gaza


The next pandemic may be in our lifetime; it may not come for another 100 years or more. But it will come. And the world remains unprepared.

My piece in TIME elaborates on why the world needs a Pandemic Accord:

https://time.com/6899739/covid-19-pandemic-agreement-who/


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No child should die from a vaccine-preventable disease such as measles.

Together, we can make this a reality.


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Children who survived bombardment but may not survive a famine.

Allow more aid for Gaza.

Ceasefire.


Deeply honoured and humbled to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Glasgow – a university with such a rich heritage, including in science and medicine.

I accepted it proudly, not only on my own behalf, but also on behalf of my family, the incredible WHO people I am privileged to call my colleagues – people like Dima Alhaj, who work around the world every day, sometimes in very difficult and dangerous situations – to make it a healthier, safer and fairer place.

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-keynote-address-at-the-university-of-glasgow---5-march-2024


A dose of an HPV vaccine and new screening and treatment tools can make cervical cancer history.

Still, the lives of too many women are cut short by this preventable disease depending on where they live.

A must read piece by my colleagues: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/hpv-jab-vaccine-cervical-cancer-elimination/


After more than a month, WHO and partners managed to access Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza to deliver 19,000 litres of fuel; lifesaving medical supplies for 150 patients; and treatments for 50 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.

Over 240 patients are being served by a large number of volunteer health workers. Services are very limited due to a lack of medical supplies, fuel, water and food.

The level of destruction around the hospital is beyond words. Ceasefire.


1 in 8 people are now living with obesity.

WHO is partnering with individuals, communities and governments to support healthy practices, and to create healthy environments in which access to prevention and treatment care is accessible, and the private sector is held accountable for the health impacts of their products.

https://www.who.int/news/item/01-03-2024-one-in-eight-people-are-now-living-with-obesity


The death toll in Gaza has surpassed 30,000 — a large majority women and children.

Over 70,000 Palestinians have been injured.

This horrific violence and suffering must end. Ceasefire.


Cancer, diabetes, heart or lung disease can affect any one of us, or our loved ones.

Conflict, flooding, earthquakes, famine, displacement, and other emergencies multiply the risks associated with these diseases.

I recently saw a report of 40 people who needed dialysis dying in one state in Sudan. Sudan has over 9000 people in need of dialysis, over 200 of them are children.

This situation is not unique to Sudan. We have seen the same needs in many places affected by conflict or disasters, including Yemen, Türkiye, Syria, Ukraine and Gaza.

We need to do better at integrating noncommunicable disease care in emergency response, to protect more lives from these avoidable tragedies and improve health security: https://bit.ly/3OXXHN7

https://x.com/WHO/status/1762472525525926251?s=20


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WHO, UN and Palestine Red Crescent Society reached besieged Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, over the weekend and transferred 24 patients, including one pregnant woman, one mother and a newborn.

The hospital experienced 40 attacks from 22 January to 22 February, which killed at least 25 and left it incapacitated.  31 patients are still in the hospital.

Palestine Red Crescent paramedics were mistreated and humiliated while leaving Al Amal trying to reach the receiving hospital on their way back, despite the fact that missions only proceed with full coordination approval and safety assurances. Three paramedics were detained. One has since been released. We appeal for the immediate release of the other two and all other detained health workers.

Such situations are happening repeatedly and are further delaying and impeding the delivery of life-saving aid.

We appeal to Israel to allow sustained, safe and dignified passage for humanitarian missions. We appeal for a ceasefire.


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Cholera outbreaks in 30 countries are fueled by conflict, poverty, the climate crisis and global socio-economic inequality.

We need the world to wake up to this rapidly growing threat and invest in:

1. water, hygiene & sanitation infrastructure

2. surveillance systems that can detect outbreaks quickly

3. vaccine production that is incentivized, increased & nurtured regionally

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