Tehran hosts meeting of WHO regional committee
Ghanbar Naderi
Press TV, Tehran
Tehran is hosting the 66th session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean. Health ministers and high-level representatives of the 22 countries and territories of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, partner organizations and civil society, are taking part in the summit.
Key technical health issues being discussed during the event include ending preventable newborn, child and adolescent deaths, strengthening nursing and midwifery as well as hospital sector, developing national institutional capacity for health policy-making and accelerating regional implementation of the UN Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases.
The event also includes progress reports on health, environment and climate change; civil registration and vital statistics systems; implementation of the Eastern Mediterranean vaccine action plan and regional malaria action plan; mental health care; implementation of the regional framework on cancer prevention and control; and implementation of the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance.
The summit is one the most important events in the field of health, and this is the fourth time that Iran is hosting this regional summit. The four-day event wraps up on Friday.
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