The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus very critical of rich nations in a recent statement about the pandemic and other health problems that affect the world. Among other things, the Director General said that the nations richer failing to keep their promise to share vaccine doses with the poorest countries in the world.
According to the Director General of WHO, two major things preventing pandemics Covid-19 to reach the goal: prevention methods are not used properly and not shared adequately vaccine. The death rate from Covid-19 remains high in countries that have poor access to the vaccine, while countries with more vaccines are administered saw their mortality rates declined.
Of the 5.5 billion vaccine Covid-19 given so far in a pandemic, about 80 percent of them have been in high-income countries and high. “We have heard excuses from manufacturers and some high-income countries about how low-income countries can not absorb the vaccine,” said Ghebreyesus.
The real problem, he explains, is that the rich countries can pay a higher amount for vaccines make a deal with manufacturers who require their orders. “High-income countries have pledged to donate more than 1 billion doses, but less than 15% of the dose has been realized,” he said.
Among other things, the Director-General calls on states to pause shot booster Covid-19 until at least the end of 2021, noting that some individuals at risk of requiring the shots this, but who did not “want to see widespread use. Booster for people healthy fully vaccinated. “
He went on to state:
Middle-income countries down is not a second or third priority. Their health workers, parents, and other risk groups have the same rights to be protected. I would not stay silent when companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines to think of the poor in the world to be satisfied with leftovers.