World Health Organization
Eliška Sommerová
These days we are suffering from the biggest disease in our century, millions of dead people all around the world, counts of victims similar to the Great Spanish flu in 1918. We make excuses that we have much better medical system care and it can't be that bad. But even with such an improvement we achieved past the 100 years, we are still suffering. People simply can not stop everything bad that happens in the world. We do not pay enough attention to not air spreadable diseases. We are not even close to finding the ultimate cure for cancer, lung diseases and deadly allergies or even the immortal life, that everybody so badly wants from early ages.
So who is taking care of humanity? Who is deciding which drugs go to the hospitals and which research is more important than the other? If you read these two sentences without the question mark at the end of them, you will get the answer to it, the little hint I gave you. So... What is WHO (World Health Organization) even doing?
As WHO proclaims:
WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. Their goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.
For universal health coverage, they:
focus on primary health care to improve access to quality essential services
work towards sustainable financing and financial protection
improve access to essential medicines and health products
train the health workforce and advise on labour policies
support people's participation in national health policies
improve monitoring, data and information.
WHO, as the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the United Nations system, adheres to the UN values of integrity, professionalism and respect for diversity. The values of the WHO workforce furthermore reflect the principles of human rights, universality and equity established in WHO's Constitution as well as the ethical standards of the Organization.
So basically they confirm if the diseases classify as deadly and what is pronounced to be a pandemic and what is not. They are also deciding, promoting and financing which drugs are going into the pharmacy market.
Do you feel safer after knowing these things about WHO?
used source: https://www.who.int/
https://www.who.int/about/what-we-do