President John Dramani Mahama, together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, will host a major event in New York Saturday, aimed at preparing the world to better manage any health crisis that arises.
Dubbed, ‘Securing a Healthy Future: Resilient Health Systems to Fight Epidemics and Ensure Healthy Lives’, the event will take place on the sidelines of the UN Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Developmental Agenda.
The event follows a proposal made to the UN Secretary General by the three leaders for the setting up of a UN-Panel to review the world's preparedness to manage health disasters like the recent Ebola outbreak in some countries in West Africa.
UN General Assembly
President Mahama is in New York, to attend the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
This year's Session is on the theme, "The United Nations at 70 - The road ahead for peace, security and human rights."
President Mahama will address the General Assembly on Wednesday September 30.
Other high-level participants
The 'Securing a Healthy Future' event will be attended by Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, who is also the head of the UN High-Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises.
The Panel was established in April 2015 in response to the proposal made by the three leaders.
Also to attend the high-level event are the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Bill Gates and officials of the World Health Organisation, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the GAVI Alliance, among others.
Together with the German Chancellor and the Norwegian Prime Minister, President Mahama will tomorrow also host a major side event on “Strengthening a healthy future: Resilient Health Systems to fight epidemics and ensure healthy lives”.
It is a follow-up to the proposal made by the three leaders to the UN Secretary General to set up a panel to review the world's response to health crisis.
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