admin The seventh meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health commenced on 21st August 2023, at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The theme of the meeting was “Building primary health care for the Future”
According to a report, 70 delegates including 15 parliamentarians, speakers and Ministers of Health from the Republic of Vanuatu, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Kingdom of Cambodia, Cook Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Samoa, Solomon Islands, Republic of Korea, Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu, and Republic of Fiji, and World Health Organization are attending the Meeting.
The meeting was chaired by Chairman of the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia, and below is the opening remarks delivered by Chairman Mr. G.Zandanshatar during the opening ceremony.
“Currently, discussion on vaccines, obesity, and tobacco control by the UN Security Council and World Economic Forum is progressing; a month later three high-level meetings on tuberculosis, universal health coverage in health services, and readiness for the potential risks of a pandemic by the 78th World Health Assembly are upcoming. They indicate that health issue converts to a leading direction in collaboration in the international arena rather is being a matter of one sector, and it stretched out one country’s boundary.
Hence, countries are aiming to build a health system based on primary health care and services that coincided with principles of unity, equality, and justice, and make services accessible to all.”
The Chairman, Mr. G. Zandanshatar ended his speech by asking all the countries to still be precautious even though the WHO has declared the end of the pandemic threat three months ago, Mongolia has begun early screening among the entire population to address existing health effects from COVID-19.
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