On April 7, 2023, Saudi Arabia and the countries of the world celebrated World Health Day, under the slogan "Health for All".
This celebration coincides with the passage of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization. About 75 years ago today, the World Health Organization treaty entered into force among the countries of the world, which recognize that health is not only a basic human right, but that health is also essential to global peace and security. This is documented in the constitution of the World Health Organization.
On this occasion, the Ministry of Health stated that the Kingdom is considered one of the countries in the world most committed to public health issues, and that it plays an effective pioneering role that it has committed to over the past decades even before joining the World Health Organization in 1961 AD, in support of this international organization and commitment to its directives, and this is evident in The Kingdom's initiative, while leading the G20 during 2020, to hold an extraordinary summit to combine efforts, contain the pandemic, and support the organization's directions, resulted in unprecedented global cooperation to establish the ACT-Accelerator and its affiliate COVAX tool. The Ministry indicated that the Kingdom is committed to the success of the three billion goals of the World Health Organization, which include comprehensive health coverage for all residents of the Kingdom, protecting them from health emergencies, and enjoying a better healthy life, in addition to securing ease and quality of access to service as the basis of the health system, by providing health services for all. Through the telephone service, telemedicine, primary care centers and hospitals.
It is noteworthy that the Kingdom has contributed to establishing advanced centers to support the efforts of the World Health Organization, as it has so far reached nine comprehensive centers in several health fields. Such as patient safety, crowd medicine, combating antibiotic-resistant microbes, and other health fields. These centers implement activities and programs in cooperation with the World Health Organization, ranging from research, training, studies, and surveys. The Kingdom also has technical and administrative contributions to the organization represented by qualified Saudi cadres who have contributed in the past and are still contributing and actively participating. Whether as leadership staff in the organization or active participants in the organization's files such as independent government negotiation teams, patient safety committees, international health regulations, and certification committees for polio eradication, in addition to supporting the organization through direct and indirect financial contributions.
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