?Making health services accessible and affordable is a global challenge? our needs and challenges require matching mobilisation of resources beyond public sources,? she said in a keynote address at the opening session of the 4-day World Health Summit WHS), 2011 that began here on Sunday at the Charit? - Universit?tsmedizin Berlin, Campus Mitte.
The WHS is the annual conference of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities together with the National Academies.
Dirk Niebel, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany; Detlev Ganten, Co-President World Health Summit; and President-designate WHS 2011 Prof Dr Steve Wesselingh of Monash University, Melbourne also spoke at the opening session..
Mentioning that the Summit?s theme, `Today?s Science - Tomorrow?s Agenda?, as timely, Hasina said there is immense scope to develop collaboration among pharmaceutical companies to enhance quality and scale up production and distribution of drugs.
She stressed the need for extending the flexibilities accorded to the LDCs within the existing Intellectual Property Regime on pharmaceuticals beyond 2015.
The prime minister called for enhancing regulatory capacity to combat medical products of inferior quality, safety and efficacy.
About the importance of preventive medicines, she said that as the world concentrate on cutting-age technology and high-end health products, simple and cost-effective interventions like immunisation must not be forgotten as they can help reduce morbidity and disease burden.
?We can prevent millions of death by making vaccines affordable. Technological breakthrough thus needs to be employed to produce new generation of vaccines.?
About the Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), Hasina said NCDs cause more mortality and morbidity these days and require greater attention.
She said that unsustainable exploitation of natural endowments, unchecked industrial growth and concomitant pollution, and unplanned urbanisation all played their roles in the growth of heart and lung diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and cancers.
Accident is another major cause of disability and death which together inflict great cost on society and economy, she added.
The Prime Minister deplored that NCD prevention and control have remained a low priority for national and international engagements.
She suggested a greater balance in the global focus between communicable and non-communicable diseases.
?We can no longer ignore increasing genetic disorders like thalassemia. Services and facilities on NCDs both in the public and the private sectors in the developing world are inadequate,? Hasina told the summit.
She called for forging global and regional partnership in health technology and research, capacity building of health personnel, health policy and health infrastructure. ?UNB
Source: daily-sun.com
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