Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, pointed out in his speech that the world has made great progress in promoting universal health coverage in the past year, and the Astana Declaration unanimously adopted by 194 countries reaffirmed the goals of primary health care and health services. Through primary health care, the country can prevent non-communicable diseases and curb the outbreak of infectious diseases, which must be based on a strong medical staff. WHO has announced the most extensive changes in history, including five aspects: strategy, process, operation mode, culture and partnership, aiming at expanding the influence of WHO and using world-class expertise to help countries achieve results.
In the general debate on the theme of "Universal Health Coverage: No One Left Behind" held on the first day of the conference, Ma, director of the National Health and Wellness Committee of China, introduced the main practices and achievements of China in achieving universal health coverage and coordinating the implementation of the Healthy China strategy.
Ma said that China strives to shoulder its due international responsibilities and obligations and actively builds a "healthy Silk Road". Ma pointed out that China strives to protect people's health in an all-round and full-cycle manner, insisting on prevention first, combining prevention with control, and joint prevention and control; Continue to deepen the reform of the medical and health system, weave a basic medical insurance network covering the whole people, build an integrated medical service system, and carry out medical service improvement actions every year; In-depth implementation of the health poverty alleviation project will ensure that all people who are poor due to illness will be lifted out of poverty under the current standards in 2020. The average life expectancy of China residents reached 77 years, the maternal mortality rate dropped to 18.3/65438+ 10,000, and the infant mortality rate dropped to 6. 1‰. The main health indicators are better than the average level of middle and high income countries.
Ma said that China, as a responsible developing country, strives to shoulder its due international responsibilities and obligations, actively builds the "Healthy Silk Road", advocates and promotes global health cooperation, and makes positive contributions to the pursuit of the health and well-being of all mankind and the building of a harmonious human destiny.