If you are experiencing violence during #COVID19:
🤝 Reach out to supportive family, friends or neighbours
📞 Call a hotline or access information online if possible
🆘 Seek out local services for survivors
If you are experiencing violence at home during #COVID19 and need to leave in a hurry:
🏘️ Identify a friend, neighbour, relative or shelter you can go to
🔀 Plan how to get there
🎒 Keep ready essential personal items to take with you
During the #COVID19 pandemic, risks of violence increase due to:
❗️ More time at home with abusers
❗️ Rising stress
❗️ Isolation from social support networks
❗️ Limited access to critical services
#HealthWorkers, you can help women survivors of violence during #COVID19
🤝 Offer first-line support to women
🩹 Provide medical treatment
❤️ Connect and refer to survivors to support
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In the #COVID19 pandemic, we must continue to invest in data 🔢 & country health information systems 💻 to advance progress towards health-realted goals.
WHO's SCORE technical package can help achieve this 👉bit.ly/3hMgbOl
"We’ve drawn new & much-needed attention to #mentalhealth, with new guidelines on stress management & adolescent & mental health, & we hosted the Big Event for Mental Health, a global advocacy event seen by more than 600,000 people"-@DrTedros#WHA73
"On maternal & child health, we’ve published new standards for improving the quality of care for small & sick newborns & provided intensive support for 20 countries to address the indirect impact of #COVID19 on mothers & children"-@DrTedros#HealthForAll
Who is WHO?
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the @UN's specialized agency for health, governed by 194 Member States.
It provides science-based recommendations to protect people's health everywhere
125 years ago today Wilhelm C. Roentgen discovered X-rays. He helped save millions of lives and won a Nobel Prize. X-ray imaging and guided interventions play a 🔑 role in achieving #HealthForAll including during #COVID19
This year #InternationalDayofRadiology is dedicated to radiologists & radiographers who play a crucial role during #COVID19. Medical imaging plays a 🔑role in COVID-19 management, incl.:
🔸 chest radiography
🔸 chest computed tomography
🔸 lung ultrasound
Conventional medical ⚕️ and dental 🦷 radiography uses X-rays to visualize the internal organ and structures of the body - including:
🎞️ film-based techniques
💻 digital technologies