The Meeting of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean Region EMRO was attended by PDGN Vice-President Mostafa Brahimi MP. It was held in April at the WHO headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, under the chairmanship of the Regional Director of the WHO., Dr Ahmed MANDHARI.
Over two days, members of the EMRO regional office and 14 experts in health policy from Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon,, Morocco, Australia and Saudi Arabia, discussed various themes related to the 2023 Vision, Strategic Directions and Policy Perspectives of the World Health Organization in the EMRO Region.
At the end of the meeting, several recommendations were made to accompany the 22 EMRO countries for the establishment of their road-map for Universal Medical Coverage; fight against Chronic non-communicable diseases like diabetes, obesity, cancer; communicable diseases; maternal mortality; the system and others. while considering that health is a multifactorial horizontal domain where everyone must take responsibility: the government, parliament, social security, civil society, medical societies and the citizen.
CAPTION: Members of the WHO North African and Eastern Mediterranean Technical Advisory Committee with PDGN Vice President Dr Mostafa Brahimi MP (standing dead centre in front of the WHO logo)