Poverty health costs have pushed half a billion people into poverty | Coronavirus Plague News
The epidemic has disrupted health services around the world and caused economic woes since the 1930’s, the World Bank and WHO say.
More than half a billion people around the world were hit by extreme poverty last year as they paid for health care in their own pockets during the COVID-19 epidemic, according to the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
The epidemic has disrupted global health services and caused economic hardship since the 1930’s, making it increasingly difficult for people to pay for medical care, the union said in a statement on Sunday.
“All governments need to start immediately and speed up the process of ensuring that all their citizens have access to health care without fear of economic hardship,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Tedros urged governments to increase their interest in health care and to maintain a global standard of healthcare, which the WHO states states that everyone has access to the care they need without financial hardship.
Health is a major political problem in the United States, one of the few developed countries with no knowledge of its citizens.
Worldwide, the epidemic has worsened and vaccination has declined for the first time in 10 years, tuberculosis and malaria are on the rise.
“In the midst of a small economy, governments need to make stronger decisions to protect and increase health budgets,” said Juan Pablo Uribe, director general of the World Bank for Health, Nutrition and Population.
From the middle class
According to a study by the Pew Research Center published in March, the plague has spread 32 million Indians from the middle class, described as earning $ 10 to $ 20 per day.
The problem is said to have increased the number of poor people in India – who earn $ 2 or less a day – by 75 million.
Meanwhile, new reports published Thursday by the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF) said more than 100 million children are now living in extreme poverty as a result of the epidemic, an increase of 10 percent since 2019.
Henrietta Fore, UNICEF executive director, said the spread of COVID-19 was growing, increasing poverty, increasing inequality and threatening children’s rights.
“While the number of children who are hungry, out of school, abused, living in poverty or forced into marriage is rising, the number of children with access to health care, vaccination, adequate food and basic services is declining. In the year we have to wait, we are moving backwards, ”he said.
