February 2025
Esteemed Chair, Your Excellencies, Director-Common,
It’s my honour to temporary you on the 71st session of the Regional Committee for the Jap Mediterranean.
As a brand new Regional Director, I used to be happy to obtain sturdy help from the Committee.
The Committee endorsed a strategic operational plan which is able to information implementation of GPW 14 in our Area.
The plan contains initiatives to strengthen the well being workforce, sort out substance use and improve equitable entry to medical merchandise, for instance by upgrading regulatory techniques.
The plan can even reinforce ongoing work to rework WHO, together with streamlining operations, optimizing help to international locations and leveraging partnerships by our groundbreaking Regional Well being Alliance.
Member States have been keenly conscious of the massive humanitarian burden within the Area and the necessity to bridge the hole between escalating calls for and declining funding.
The Committee adopted a regional operational framework for trauma care in humanitarian settings and a regional motion plan for psychological well being and psychosocial help in emergencies, to reinforce emergency preparedness and response.
A number of different regional devices have been additionally endorsed on key points together with:
addressing antimicrobial resistance;
enhancing well being info techniques;
implementing Immunization Agenda 2030;
strengthening native vaccine manufacturing; and
strengthening well being laboratory companies.
Thanks, Chair.
