G20 needs help to increase funds available to WHO: Mansukh Mandaviya | India News – Times of India – India Times English News

New Delhi: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya said on friday G-20 need to help increase the funds available for World Health Organization (WHO) with a special focus on equitable and affordable access.
According to an official statement, the Union minister while addressing the G20 joint finance and health ministers meeting said that “no one is safe in a pandemic unless all are safe”.
According to the government release, the agenda for discussion was “concrete proposals to strengthen the global health financing regime”.
“The G20 needs to help increase the funding available to the WHO, primarily funds that are not earmarked, in addition to supporting ongoing multistakeholder mechanisms such as GAVI, CEPI, ACT-A, equitable and affordable There is a special focus on access. “No one is safe in this pandemic until everyone is safe.”
In the meeting, the Union Minister said:covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the importance of international health regulations and the need to strengthen global health governance
Currently, several parallel proposals are being discussed at various fora, including the IPPPR’s Global Health Threat Council, an IHR review, a framework on pandemic management, the need for a conference or some other instrument, and the G20 proposal. Joint health and funding task force. In order to strengthen the preparedness to deal with the epidemic. response, the Union Minister further said.
Supporting the current proposal of the Joint Health and Financial Task Force, he said that India’s proposal is that WHO’s centrality in the field of health needs to be maintained.
Mandaviya said, “India also proposes that multiple institutions with overlapping mandates are addressing the issue of pandemic preparedness and response with clearly defined complementarity of all such initiatives to build a global health emergency management architecture over time. Huh. is needed.” .
The Minister further said that there is also a need to synchronize these multilateral initiatives at the national level among the member states as per their local context.
Prime Minister’s quote Narendra ModiMandaviya said: “In this context, I quote our honorable Prime Minister Modi when he mentioned that ‘Sabka Samarth, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and everyone’s efforts’ are the keys to success.”
He said India would like to congratulate the Italian President for his efforts towards strengthening global health funding and its governance.

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