This is the only way to respond to major health events and avoid millions of additional deaths each year as a result of the climate crisis, avoidable environmental risks and complex emergencies.

Primary health care can help deliver 90 percent of essential health services while saving 60 million lives by 2030 to speed-up progress towards universal health coverage.

WHO urged governments to prioritize investments in building resilient health systems to safeguard the well-being of all people worldwide.

The international body lamented that half of the world’s population is not fully covered with essential health services and two billion people face financial challenges or are impoverished due to out-of-pocket spending on health.

Primary health care guarantees a more inclusive, effective and efficient path to human wellbeing, highlighted WHO.

It makes access to essential services more affordable and equitable, hence requires greater collaboration to increase and improve political commitment, financing and participation, WHO emphasized.

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