Draft resolution adopted in favour of Palestine by the World Health Assembly

The 74th World Health Assembly, held via videoconferencing, adopted a draft resolution in favor of Palestine, submitted by 27 countries, including the State of Qatar, entitled “Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.”

The resolution issued by the Assembly, which is considered the highest decision-making body in the World Health Organization (WHO), affirmed the support of the Palestinian health sector, ensuring sustainable purchases of vaccines, medicines, and medical equipment, and ensuring the availability of COVID-19 vaccines to the people in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem and the occupied Syrian Golan, and strengthening the capacities of the humanitarian health response by providing comprehensive and sustainable assistance and protection during the COVID-19 pandemic and after the end of the pandemic.

Also, the resolution underscored the need to ensure respect and protection of the wounded and all medical and humanitarian workers, hospitals, and other medical facilities, and to conduct an assessment in cooperation with other relevant United Nations agencies on the scope and nature of mental illnesses and other forms of psychological problems resulting from aerial bombardment and other forms of long-term bombing on the inhabitants of the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, in addition to providing technical health assistance to the Syrian people in the occupied Syrian Golan.

The resolution also included an emphasis on continuing to provide the necessary technical assistance to meet the health needs of the Palestinian people, including prisoners and detainees, in cooperation with the efforts of the International Committee of the Red Cross, meeting the health needs of people with disabilities and the wounded, and supporting the development of the health system in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, by ensuring the allocation of human and financial resources to achieve these goals.

The 74th World Health Assembly meetings started on Monday via videoconferencing and continues until June 1. Minister of Public Health H E Dr. Hanan Mohammed Al Kuwari chaired the State of Qatar delegation to the meeting.

The Assembly discusses many important topics, particularly the four pillars of one billion other people benefiting from universal health coverage, one billion more people being better protected from health emergencies, one billion more people enjoying more health and wellness, and enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the WHO in providing countries with better support.

Source: QNA

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