Georgia’s experience during COVID-19 will inform its future primary health care approaches
Georgia’s experience during COVID-19 will inform its future primary health care approaches 29 January 2021
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Dr Irina Karosanidze, a primary health care (PHC) doctor in Georgia is on the frontlines of a dramatic transformation in PHC delivery that will hopefully have a lasting and positive impact on the lives of everyone, everywhere in the country.
”It is a question of people being able to access health services and receive health care advice when and where they need it. With the rapid acceleration of digital health services due to the pandemic, that can even be at home,” said Irina who is working closely with the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs to adapt PHC services to meet the demands of a global pandemic.
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UN ready to support Palestinian elections, new envoy tells Security Council January 27, 2021
Al-Walaja, a Palestinian village in the West Bank. courtesy UNRWA/Marwan Baghdadi
NEW YORK Palestinian elections scheduled for later this year will be a crucial step towards unity, the new UN envoy in the region, Tor Wennesland, said on Tuesday in his first briefing to the Security Council.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree earlier this month announcing parliamentary and presidential elections will be held starting in May, marking the first vote across the Occupied Territories in 15 years.
Wennesland, special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has joined UN Secretary-General António Guterres in welcoming the development.
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Richard Mills, the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the Biden administration will restore diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority and resume aid to Palestinians that was cut off during the Trump presidency. Mills also said the U.S. would continue to support a two-state solution, though many progressive regional experts oppose the strategy, saying it is no longer viable.
In related news, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced earlier this month parliamentary and presidential elections will be held this year â the first elections in the Occupied Territories in 15 years. Analysts say the move is an overture to the new Biden administration.