Reuters, 08/02 17:40 CET
By Kate Kelland
LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – - The
World Health Organization’s emergency response capability is “lacking”
and will put thousands of lives at risk if it is not reformed now,
according to a high-level U.N. report on health crises.
“This may be the last opportunity to ensure the WHO
is empowered” to build an effective emergency response capacity, warned
an advance, unedited copy of the U.N. panel’s report, made available
online over the weekend in a link on the United Nations’ daily Journal
website.
“The high risk of major health crises is widely
underestimated and … the world’s preparedness and capacity to respond is
woefully insufficient,” the panel, convened in the wake of the Ebola
crisis, said in its report.
“If the WHO does not successfully reform, the next major pandemic will cause thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.”
The U.N. report, entitled “Protecting Humanity from
Future Health Crises”, is the latest in a series of reviews by global
health experts which have been sharply critical of the WHO’s response to
the devastating Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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Source: Euronews
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