Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

WHO and partners transferred 14 critical patients and 11 companions from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al-Shifa Hospital - as part of a two day mission, amid hostilities and access restrictions, which forced the team to stay at Kamal Adwan hospital over night with heavy bombardment in the vicinity of the hospital. This was a fourth attempt to reach Kamal Adwan.

Despite an initial agreement, the delivery of critical medical supplies, blood, and fuel, which are essential for keeping Kamal Adwan Hospital operational, were denied just a few hours before the mission departure.

The health situation in northern #Gaza is horrific, with precarious access to essential health care.

Health care continues to be attacked and hospitals starved of supplies and fuel, while WHO’s ability to regularly reach health facilities is severely compromised due to consistent mission delays and denials.

We urge for a sustained and safe humanitarian access. Ceasefire!

I returned this morning from Kigali, where I witnessed firsthand Rwanda’s response to the Marburg outbreak. We’re pleased that there have been no new cases and deaths in the past six days; and I could see the outbreak is being managed under strong leadership.

But we are dealing with one of the world’s most dangerous viruses, and continued vigilance is essential.

WHO will continue to support the government. Enhanced surveillance, contact tracing and infection prevention and control measures must continue at scale until the outbreak is declared over.

When trust in health and science breaks down, the consequences can be deadly.

We cannot assume or expect trust; we must earn it. And those with power must participate and partner fully to ensure that their vast audiences have access to evidence-based, life-saving information.

Almost everyone in Gaza is going hungry according to the latest assessment. This is inhumane.

WHO calls for immediate access for all humanitarian aid, starting with food and medicine for severely malnourished children, who need to be treated urgently.

WHO continues to call for a ceasefire. The best medicine is peace.

A fifth plane with WHO medical supplies arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, today, with enough to treat 200,000 people with trauma and chronic diseases, as well as childhood illnesses and severe acute malnutrition

However, aid is not enough to meet all the health needs. The people of Lebanon need peace.

Escalating violence in the north of Gaza has blocked humanitarian missions from reaching people with food and medical supplies. Meanwhile, health care continues to be attacked.

We ask Israel to give WHO and our partners access to the north so we can reach those who desperately need aid.

Under international humanitarian law, all actors have a duty to ensure health care is protected, and not attacked.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health confirmed a case of cholera in the northern part of the country.

WHO has activated a preparedness and response plan to strengthen surveillance and contact tracing.

The oral vaccination campaign that started in August has now been interrupted by the escalation in violence.

The solution to the suffering of people in Lebanon is not aid, but peace.

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The total number of children who received a second dose of polio vaccine in central Gaza after two days of vaccination is 156,943. The vaccination continues today.

At the same time, 128,121 children received vitamin A supplements.

We call for the humanitarian pauses to continue to be respected.

We call for a ceasefire and peace.

The second round of polio vaccination in Gaza started yesterday, with 92,821 children receiving the vaccine and 76,394 receiving vitamin A supplements, based on initial reports.

The campaign in central Gaza will continue untill 17 October. We appeal for the continued respect of humanitarian pauses.

We repeat: the children of Gaza need vaccines and aid, but above all, they need peace.

Encouraging news from Rwanda: world's first clinical trial for #Marburg virus disease treatment started today, as a result of WHO’s partnership with the Ministry of Health.

The trial involves testing the safety and efficacy of Remdesivir—a drug against viruses already used to treat COVID-19, and MBP091—a special antibody designed to fight Marburg virus.

This trial is the result of two years’ work by nearly 200 researchers, developers, ministry of health officials and partners globally and from 17 African countries at risk of outbreaks of filoviruses such as Ebola and Marburg.

Tonight's #WHS2024 Signature #InvestInWHO pledges are a powerful demonstration of high-level support to WHO with nearly $700 million in new funding commitments from European countries, foundations and others, and another $300 million in reaffirmed commitments.

Thank you for your new pledges:
🇩🇰 Denmark $41 million
🇪🇪 Estonia $1.8 million
🇫🇮 Finland $2.1 million
🇩🇪 Germany $262.6 million
🇬🇷 Greece $20 million
🇮🇪 Ireland $30 million
🇱🇺 Luxembourg $52 million
🇲🇹 Malta $400,000
🇲🇪 Montenegro $80,000
🇳🇱 Netherlands $20.6 million
🇳🇴 Norway $93.6 million

Wellcome Trust $50 million
Resolve to Save Lives $10 million
Institute of Philanthropy $10 million
World Diabetes Foundation $6.2 million
WHO Foundation $50 million

All for health, #HealthForAll!

Vielen Dank, Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, for your personal engagement and commitment to #InvestInWHO.

We welcome Germany's commitment to fund WHO with $400 million over the next four years, including more than $260 million in new voluntary funding.

We are deeply grateful for your leadership to mobilize countries to sustainably finance WHO, and to co-host the Investment Round and the #WHS2024 Signature Event.

Prior to the event, the Chancellor and I used the opportunity to touch base on WHO’s work in humanitarian crises, as well as the ongoing #PandemicAccord negotiations.

Thank you, Chancellor, for making the 'All for Health, #HealthForAll' slogan real!

LIVE from #WHS2024: All for Health, Health for All - Signature Event for the WHO Investment Round ⬇️

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LIVE NOW: My remarks on Investment in Women’s Health at the World Health Summit

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I hope next year's World Health Summit theme will be peace. We cannot talk about health alone. There is no health without peace.

#WHS2024