Thread by @WHO

#COVID19 is eroding decades of progress made towards universal health coverage.

We need to invest in stronger health systems now to ensure that everyone can access to health care without experiencing financial hardship.

We need to emerge stronger 💪 from #COVID19 to achieve #HealthForAll by:
✅Responding to the pandemic
✅Strengthening health systems
✅Boosting universal health coverage
✅Protecting people from future health threats

Universal Health Coverage:
-Enables people to make good health decisions
-Brings life-saving services to rural communities 
-Builds networks to provide affordable, local treatment
-Provides more sophisticated services at hospitals 

#COVID19 has highlighted the urgent need for strong primary health care that can provide essential services within the community - when and where people need it. 

Universal Health Coverage includes the full spectrum of essential, quality health services:
🔸 Promotion
🔸 Prevention
🔸 Treatment
🔸 Rehabilitation
🔸 Palliative care

#HealthWorkers 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ have a crucial role to play in #HealthForAll:
🔹Educating patients on how to take care of their health
🔹Coordinating care
🔹Advocating for their patients’ needs to health facility managers and policy-makers

Countries around 🌏🌍🌎 are demonstrating that investing in stronger health systems is crucial in responding to #COVID19 and future health threats.

👉 bit.ly/3iF3UL8

By turning to primary health care during #COVID19, #Pakistan 🇵🇰 reinstates essential health services such as:
✅immunization
✅maternal health care
✅family planning

👉 bit.ly/33Hnhxw

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 demonstrates how investing in health systems can boost its #COVID19 response and accelerate progress towards #HealthForAll

👉 bit.ly/2RSueGJ

#PapuaNewGuinea 🇵🇬 is taking a strong stance against #COVID19 by 💪 the health system. Priority actions to protect communities incl.:
✅ Scaling up testing
✅ Strengthening health care delivery system
✅ Identifying & protecting vulnerable populations

👉 bit.ly/31WGeN2

#SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 scaled up its infection prevention and control measures to better protect patients and health workers from avoidable infections in health facilities during #COVID19

👉 bit.ly/2DBupTm