Published date: 3 March 2021 14:17 UTC | Last update: 3 weeks ago
The death of a Lebanese x-ray technician and former paramedic due to Covid-19 last week has shed new light on the plight of overwhelmed health workers battling the pandemic in the cash-strapped country.
Tributes to Fadi Abou Hassan, with an image of him in Lebanese Red Cross garb where he once volunteered, have poured out across social media, days after it was revealed that the health ministry bypassed the country s rollout policy to vaccinate a handful of MPs. This is shameful. They are frontline workers who protect us,
- Sharaf Abou Sharaf, head of the Doctors’ Syndicate
Palau upholds gender equality, social inclusion in disaster risk management
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Palau has taken concrete action to leave no one behind in its disaster risk management efforts. Forty-two (42) staff (21 women and 21 men) from the public sector and civil society organisations who engage in national and community disaster risk management in Palau received training to integrate a gender, age, disability and cultural perspective in policies and practices of disaster risk management.
The two-day workshop was opened in the capital Koror on Wednesday 10 February 2021 by Palau’s National Emergency Management Office (NEMO), Bureau of Ageing, Disability and Gender (BADG), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). This was in partnership with Palau Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Pacific Community (SPC), and Omekesang Association of Palau, a civil society organisation working for the rights of persons with disabilities.
"Government could leverage CSOs unique skill sets to enhance social mobilization efforts, access hard-to-reach communities, and expand the trained workforce."
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