“There is no global health security without national development and countries that respond to outbreaks are not doing it only for themselves, but also are doing it for the world.” “At its essence, the UHPR enhances how we protect ourselves, protect our neighbours and protect the world,” said Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme. The first UHPR pilot was conducted in December 2021 in the Central African Republic, followed by three others in Iraq, Portugal and Thailand. “This is where we want to go and we want WHO to support us get there faster, identifying and documenting the lessons learnt.” Demby, Minister of Health in Sierra Leone. We have adopted the life stage approach to universal health coverage so that health care is directed at every stage of life, starting with a pregnant woman, all the way until that baby is a senior citizen,” said Dr Austin H. “You need to prepare for a health emergency, and you must have a resilient health system. Under the mechanism, countries agree to voluntary, regular and transparent peer reviews of their national health emergency preparedness capacities. Initially proposed by the Central African Republic and Benin in response to the challenges foregrounded by COVID-19, the State-led mechanism was launched by World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in October 2020. ![]() “I believe UHPR will help to address that thin line ‒ on how you respond and not lose your capability to deliver health care.” “There is always a thin line when you are faced with a health emergency, in that you want to address the emergency without collapsing the health care delivery system,” said Dr Juldeh Jalloh. ![]() Freetown ‒ Sierra Leone today became the second African country, and the fifth globally, to launch a review of its health emergency preparedness and response capacity to identify gaps and reinforce measures against health shocks.ĭr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, Vice-President of Sierra Leone, launched the national Universal Health Preparedness Review (UHPR), a review process designed to bolster health emergency preparedness and response, while simultaneously building health system capacity to deliver quality universal health care.
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