From camels with coolboxes to digital transformation: how innovation paves the way to success

10 October 2022 – Each of the 22 countries and territories in the Region has its own story of determination, diplomacy, creativity, optimism and success in working towards realizing our shared vision of Health for All by All. These stories are highlighted during this year’s Regional Committee. In Afghanistan, where the health needs of the population grew ever more acute following the change of regime in August 2021, 40 million increasingly vulnerable people faced the prospect of a health system on the brink of collapse. As the world focused on flights out of Afghanistan, WHO was working on how to fly essential medical supplies in. Two weeks after the change of regime, 12.5 million metric tonnes of supplies landed in Mazar-e-Sharif. Since then, 2122 metric tonnes of medicines, medical supplies and equipment have been flown in and distributed as WHO and donors spared no effort to keep vital health services operational. In Bahrain, the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) had worked for more than a decade before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen capacity and public health emergency readiness, advocating for strengthening partnerships and the mobilization of resources, and fostering innovation. When the pandemic hit, the laboratory network was able to quickly scale-up testing from 3000 Read more...
Source: WHO EMRO News - Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news