World Health Summit 2022 opens in Berlin

The World Health Summit 2022 was officially opened in Berlin on Sunday evening. The leading theme of the opening ceremony was 'Taking Global Health to a New Level'. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the summit: "Networking and good cooperation across national borders are what matter - especially in the field of global health."

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "Taking global health to a new level means we need a new global agreement or global accord based on a shared vision at exactly the moment when the world needed to come together to face this common threat as one." In his pre-recorded speech,UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the summit to "move from alarm to action.

And let's deliver the stronger health systems that every person deserves."  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also announced it would commit US$1.2 billion to support efforts to end polio throughout the world.