The Director-General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, gave the assessment ahead of World No Tobacco Day, marked annually on May 31, and which targets the threats tobacco poses to global development worldwide
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Chan, who gave the warning in her address to the ongoing 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva, said good health is key to the attainment of any developmental efforts. According to her, health holds a prominent and central place that benefits the entire 2030 Development Agenda
Chan said: “More than 11,300 people have died since the outbreak in December 2013 in West Africa, while 28,500 have been infected.
“Detecting and breaking every chain of transmission has been a monumental achievement
With the Ebola virus now directly and indirectly impacting economies in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and neighbouring countries, the new World Bank Group emergency response will also help countries and communities cope with financial hardship caused by the outbreak
Chan told a summit of regional leaders that failure to contain it could be “catastrophic” in terms of lives lost