New York: The United Nations General Assembly will maintain three high-level conferences on health this yr on key issues, together with pandemic preparedness, Universal Health Coverage and ending the TB epidemic by 2030.

“All three are among the eight flagship priority programmes that the WHO South-East Asia Region had identified in 2014 in discussion with Member countries,” World Health Organisation’s Regional Director for South-East Asia Poonam Khetrapal Singh stated in a press release on Thursday.

However, the primary high-level assembly on pandemic preparedness is an “opportunity for world leaders to forge a common path forward to prevent a repeat of the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic,” the assertion stated

Universal Health Coverage stands needed as COVID-19 demonstrated that the well being and well-being of all individuals is the muse of affluent, equitable and sustainable societies and economies, it stated.

According to Singh, “We need to focus on accelerating efforts to ensure that everyone, everywhere receives good quality health services, when and where needed, without incurring financial hardship.”

Lastly, the third well being problem is to establish gaps and options to “accelerate progress towards ending the Tuberculosis epidemic by 2030 and ensure equitable access to prevention, testing, treatment, and care,” the assertion stated.

Moreover, it’s related to the WHO Southeast Asia Region in view of its disproportionate burden of TB instances and deaths.

These programmes are receiving centered consideration and motion. “Much has been done. Much more is needed,” the assertion added.

Meanwhile, new options are wanted for the nations to ship well being for all to make progress on their large agenda for sustainable growth.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that global actors in the multilateral system, working differently and collaborating more robustly, can achieve ambitious goals and establish a pivot point for global health,” she stated.

Furthermore, these high-level conferences are alternatives to commit to those key priorities, to collaborate, to discover modern methods of overcoming challenges and to offer an impetus to the present efforts, she added.