New Delhi India expressed disappointment and concern over the recent practice by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the high mortality rate from all causes at the 75th session of the World Health Assembly to be held in Geneva from May 22 to 28. India reiterated that country specific authentic data published by the statutory authority has not been taken into account.
“Ignoring the concerns expressed by India and other countries on the methods and sources of data on the manner in which the WHO report on excess mortality from all causes was prepared and published, country specific authentic data is isolated. Would like to express our disappointment with the statutory authority of India,” Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya said while addressing the World Health Assembly session in Geneva at the WHO Headquarters.
This is the first individual health gathering since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this regard, the Union Health Minister conveyed the collective dismay of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare, a representative body of health ministers of all the states of India, as they came up with a unanimous resolution regarding WHO’s approach and methodology on extreme mortality. had passed. Report.
On 6 May, WHO in its report on more deaths due to Covid said, approx. There have been 4.7 million deaths directly or indirectly due to COVID-19 in India in 2020 and 2021. However, India at that time strongly objected to the use of mathematical models to present higher mortality estimates given the availability of authentic data.
Mandaviya highlighted India’s commitment to building a more resilient global health security architecture. There is a need to build a resilient global supply chain to enable equitable access to vaccines and drugs, streamline the WHO approval process for vaccines and therapeutics, and strengthen the WHO to create a more resilient global health security architecture. needs to be done,” he said.
He said that as a responsible member of the global community, India is ready to play an important role in these efforts.
“India believes that this year’s theme Connecting Peace and Health is timely and relevant because without peace there can be no sustainable development and universal health and wellbeing,” he said.