WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has affirmed that the council is separated on whether to proclaim a monkeypox crisis. According to the details, during a media briefing in Geneva, WHO Director General said that 6 members supported the declaration of emergency regarding monkey pox while 9 opposed it. According to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak is calling for a global health emergency. At a media briefing, Tedros said that monkeypox had sounded the alarm and a coordinated international response was needed.
Tedros said the goal of the global emergency is to unlock advance vaccines, shared funding for treatment and global efforts against the outbreak.
Despite the recommendations of the World Health Organization's expert committee, a majority opposed the declaration of emergency, but Tedros decided to support the highest alert level due to fears of an increase in monkeypox cases and a lack of vaccines and treatment. What is it. Lawrence Goston, a professor at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C. who follows the WHO, said not declaring an emergency against the monkeypox outbreak at this time would be a historic missed opportunity. It should be noted that so far this year, there have been more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox in more than 75 countries and five deaths in Africa.
Monkeypox is spread by close contact and causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled skin sores – In particular, this disease is spreading among men who have sex with men in the recent outbreak. The WHO and national governments are under intense pressure from scientists and public health experts to take further action on monkeypox. Yesterday, the United States identified the first two cases of monkeypox in children.
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