ECHO Factsheet - Health (Last updated 12/01/2021)
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What is it?
Health is a core sector of humanitarian assistance, but also a reliable measurement of its impact. The European Commission aims to provide high-quality humanitarian health assistance in fragile contexts, such as emergency medical assistance, outbreak preparedness and response, vaccination, hygiene promotion, and screening for malnutrition. Health is interconnected with other humanitarian sectors, such as water and sanitation, nutrition, and food.
Why is this important?
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), before COVID-19, more than 76% of the world s poorest were estimated to be living in fragile contexts. Violence, conflict and disasters restrict people s access to primary health care. Climate change, population growth, mass migration and microorganisms resistant to treatments are hampering the Universal Health Coverage.
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With so much importance placed on in-person learning, it seems unfathomable that Government missed the only opportunity to get the virus under control while keeping schools open Some of the safety equipment used to keep teachers and students safe in schools. File Picture: Alison Laredo
Wed, 06 Jan, 2021 - 06:30
Jess Casey, Education Correspondent
With so much importance placed on in-person learning, it seems unfathomable that Government missed the only opportunity to get the virus under control while keeping schools open. Now, we are facing at least three weeks of remote learning after repeatedly hearing schools are safe. How did we get here?
It s been a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) first picked up information on a viral pneumonia from Chinese authorities in Wuhan.
That pneumonia of unknown origin would in just a few short months cause the worst pandemic the world has seen in a century.
A year on, COVID-19 has killed at least 1.7 million people, infecting over 80.8 million. It devastated European hospitals and forced many countries to heavily restrict people s movements.
Although the virus had been circulating earlier than that fateful December 31 date, the discovery of cases of this virus would set into motion the defining event of 2020, which has impacted all of our lives.