
Strengthen int’l health cooperation for pandemic recovery, gov’t urged
by NILLICENT BAUTISTA
THE GOVERNMENT should strengthen international health cooperation and diplomacy to help the country survive unprecedented health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a medical expert said.
Agencies must draw on the existing international cooperation and policies as these have helped the country survive the multisectoral adversities brought by the pandemic, Department of Health’s (DOH) international and diplomacy division chief Joel Buenaventura said.
“In a post-COVID world, I would say that we really have to strengthen our ties, especially of our neighbors, because they are really the ones who will be there, would be the ones closest to you,” Buenaventura said during the virtual UST Model United Nations (MUN) conference held this month.
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