WHO’s Director-General inaugurates 68th session of Regional Committee for Eastern Mediterranean – Egypt Today

WHO’s Director-General inaugurates 68th session of Regional Committee for Eastern Mediterranean – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 6 October 2022: After 2 years of being held virtually, the 69th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean will be held in hybrid modality this year from 10 to 13 October 2022. Ministers of health and high-level representatives of the 22 countries of WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Region, along with partner organizations and civil society, will participate, partially in person and mostly connecting online to discuss priority public health issues. WHO’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, and Vice-chair of the 68th session of the Regional Committee H.E. Dr Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh of Djibouti, will address the opening session. The Regional Committee will discuss a range of key priority public health issues, including building resilient health systems to advance universal health coverage, preventing, controlling and eliminating communicable diseases, promoting health and well-being in the Region, advancing the One Health approach and fostering digital health. "This past year has been challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact the Region. Alongside the grievous direct effects of the coronavirus disease itself – with almost 17.5 million confirmed cases and more than 317 000 deaths reported across the Region by