Professor Walid Ammar, chair of a committee reviewing the WHO's emergency response, said funding and staffing gaps were widening in the face of ever-increasing demands.
A growing number of health emergencies around the world, from Covid-19 to cholera, have left the World Health Organisation's response "overstretched", a senior advisor said on Tuesday .
"[The] programme is overstretched as demands have only grown with the multiplicity and complexity of emergencies," he said. The report also noted that climate change was increasing the frequency of events like floods and cyclones, all of which have health consequences.
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