30/05/2022
The pandemic has revealed significant gaps in countries’ health information systems. Clearly, these gaps are persistent issues that have only been revealed by the current crisis, but have been languishing for far longer. Inequalities by income, age, race, s*x and geographic location are made larger as the complex, interconnected threats to global health and well-being are rooted in social, economic, political and environmental issues. Due to its scope, COVID-19 threatens to jeopardize the hard-won health and development gains made in recent decades.
To address those gaps, Mr. Ghebreyesus stressed the importance of national and sub-national health systems, as these systems comprise “the foundation of global health security.”