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"Yesterday, I made my remarks on the theme of health for peace and peace for health, which Member States will discuss in the general debate. I want to start today by looking back, to where we have been over the past five years"-@DrTedros #WHA75
@DrTedros "You elected me 5 short years ago, with an ambitious agenda for universal health coverage; health emergencies; women's, children's and adolescents' health; the health impacts of climate and environmental change; and a transformed WHO"-@DrTedros #WHA75
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🆕 report highlights that ~1.8 billion people are at ↗️ risk of #COVID19 & other diseases because they use or work in health care facilities without basic water services 🚱 - putting millions of lives around the 🌎🌍🌏 at risk

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The situation is worst in the health care facilities of the world’s least developed countries:
🗑️ 70% have no basic health care waste management system
🚱 50% have no basic water services
🚽 20% lack sanitation services

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Investing in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene in health care facilities would help:
🦠 Combat antimicrobial resistance
👶 Improve quality of care & safety of 👶 deliveries
✅ Prevent spread of hospital infections, & diseases incl. #COVID19
🪙 Save money

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Here are our #Top10 health tweets in 2019:

1⃣ #VaccinesWork

Vaccines:
💪🏽reduce child deaths and disease
💪🏽protect against outbreaks
💪🏽prevent malnutrition
💪🏽defend against antimicrobial resistance
With vaccines, we are protected together!

#Top10 health tweets in 2019

2⃣ #MentalHealth

Every 40 seconds someone dies from #suicide.
This year, WHO launched the #40seconds campaign to raise awareness about the scale of suicide around the world and roles we can play in prevention.

#Top10 health tweets in 2019

3⃣ #PatientSafety

Every minute, 5 patients die because of unsafe care. This year, we marked the first ever #WorldPatientSafetyDay to speak up for patient safety!

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En la Asamblea General de la #OMS trabajando con los países miembros para lograr la Cobertura Universal de Salud con equidad, inclusión y calidad, sin dejar a nadie atrás. @WHO #WHA72 Image
La cobertura efectiva es acceso a la salud con integralidad, continuidad de la atención y coordinación de cuidados con equidad y calidad. #CUS #CuidarteSiempre #WHA72 @WHO #OMS
Cobertura Universal de Salud significa cobertura universal efectiva, para que todos los argentinos gocen de una atención de calidad, independientemente de donde vivan, de su condición socioeconómica o del tipo de cobertura sanitaria que posean.
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Great advice from @HansRosling, relevant to all groups attending #WHA72. Important facts about @ResolveTSL work that you may not know: Image
1. HTN kills more people than any other cause – 10.5M a year, more than all infectious diseases.
2. Not a single low income country has limited artificial transfat but 2 billion better off people already protected
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