Director, Department for Universal Health Coverage/Health Systems, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
Regional Emergency Director, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J. 2020 Dec 9;26(12):1436-1439. doi: 10.26719/2020.26.12.1436.
The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day has been commemorated on 12 December every year since 2017. In 2019, the theme of the day was "Keep the Promise", referring to the Political Declaration on UHC endorsed by Heads of States at the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on 23 September 2019. In 2020, the theme is "Protect Everyone", emphasizing global and individual health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, attributed to SARS-CoV 2 - a virus that infected more than 4 million people in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and left over 100 000 dead in less than 12 months (6.6% and 7.1% of the global toll, respectively). Keeping the promise of UHC, while ensuring health security, is becoming a priority agenda of policy-makers and practitioners in the EMR in order to save lives, advance health and protect livelihoods.
自 2017 年以来，每年 12 月 12 日都会纪念世界全民健康覆盖日。2019 年，活动主题是“坚守承诺”，指的是各国元首在 2019 年 9 月 23 日联合国大会全民健康覆盖高级别会议上核可的《全民健康覆盖政治宣言》。2020 年，主题是“保护每个人”，强调在 COVID-19 大流行背景下的全球和个人健康安全，这归因于 SARS-CoV-2，它在不到 12 个月的时间里感染了东地中海区域（EMR）超过 400 万人，并导致 10 多万人死亡（分别占全球死亡人数的 6.6%和 7.1%）。为了拯救生命、增进健康和保护生计，实现全民健康覆盖的承诺并确保健康安全，正在成为该区域决策者和从业者的一个优先议程。
