Over 200 global health experts are scheduled to spend the next three days discussing the leading questions on Covid-19 pandemic during the World Health Summit Regional Meeting in Africa.
The meeting, set to run up to June 30th, was opened last evening by President Yoweri Museveni at Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala.
Hosted by Makerere University together with the Government of Uganda, the virtual summit is scheduled to agree the Kampala Accord on Covid-19 after extensive deliberations on the global health challenge which has interrupted the global economies.
According to the summit organizing committee led by the education ministry permanent secretary, Alex Kakooza, 3000 participants who include national, regional and international experts with notables like the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the health minister of Germany, Jens Spahn are to attend.
Kakooza says they will discuss issues to do with vaccine equity, pandemic preparedness, the different Covid variants and how to maintain health care and financing for the other diseases despite the presence of Covid-19.
This comes amidst a global challenge of vaccine nationalization, which has resulted into the countries, especially the poor ones, running out of vaccines as the global powers cater for their populations first.
Therefore, the Kampala discussions according to Dr. Bruce Kalenga, who is part of the organizing committee, will pick-up from action points set by among others the recent G7 summit to broadly discuss Covid interventions.
