DUBAI, CMC – The Assistant Director of the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO), Dr. Rhonda Sealey-Thomas, has urged international locations of the Americas to make sure the well being impacts of local weather change are taken on board as they proceed to rebuild and strengthen well being methods within the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Talking on the “Well being and Local weather Change within the Americas: Tips on how to defend folks’s well being within the local weather disaster,” held on the sidelines of the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP28), the Antigua and Barbuda nationwide famous that within the Americas, the consequences of local weather change “are amplified by deficiencies in infrastructure and well being methods to advertise well being, forestall ailments and successfully reply to crises, disasters, and emergencies.”
She stated local weather change not solely exacerbates present well being threats but in addition has a disproportionate affect on communities in conditions of vulnerability, in addition to these dwelling on the frontlines of local weather change, together with small island states of the Caribbean.
The PAHO Assistant Director underscored the company’s work to assist international locations of the Americas in creating climate-resilient well being methods, together with strengthening well being surveillance methods and creating Local weather and Well being Observatories and Local weather Well being Early Warning Methods.
However she urged member states to strengthen their actions to “higher defend our well being, that of future generations, in addition to the well being of our planet.”
A number of PAHO member states additionally underscored the significance of this work throughout discussions at COP28.
Throughout COP28, PAHO representatives additionally met with Afke Van Rijn, the Director Normal of Atmosphere and Worldwide Affairs on the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Administration of the Netherlands, to debate the CFIT Pact. This worldwide partnership goals to speed up the sustainable manufacturing and use of data know-how merchandise.
PAHO stated that this might assist scale back its carbon footprint by supporting the strengthening of well being infrastructure and the digitization of well being methods.
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