WHO reaches out to us once again
The WHO’s Western Pacific Region has asked IFHE to work with them to develop a tool to prescribe the right interventions. As you know, the Island Nations are the first to be feeling the overwhelming impact of the changing climate, as they literally sink under the rising seas. Their need is urgent.IFHE is a non-governmental organization in Official Relations with the World Health Organizations. For years, we have served the WHO in various ways. Most significantly, during the Covid Crisis, we worked with WHO to provide volunteer expertise to help countries and organizations around the world to help them manage their health infrastructure to better respond to the challenges of caring for Covid patients. We have since been working with the WHO’s Techne program, and we will provide you with more information in our next newsletter.
But we have a new requires from the WHO for IFHE Experts to serve, and another to learn.
The WHO’s Western Pacific Region has asked us to work with them to develop a tool to prescribe the right interventions. As you know, the Island Nations are the first to be feeling the overwhelming impact of the changing climate, as they literally sink under the rising seas. Their need is urgent.
In Evidence Based Medicine, the idea is to recommend the best possible intervention for a particular diagnosis. This is precisely what WHO is asking us to do. The WHO has a lot of tools that help a country to assess its facilities. What they do not have is a way to provide a prioritized roadmap for improvement. This is a very difficult thing to even think about. It must take into account local climates, facility condition, available resources, and anticipated risks. The task is audacious, which is why they are coming to us.
We will be developing recommendations for envelope, water influent and effluent, energy supply systems, ventilation and thermal energy systems, waste management systems, and medical gas systems. We are likely to identify others, as we go.
Please help. If you are interested, send us an email at:info@ifhe.info
The second WHO announcement is an upcoming event. WHO will be convening a high level organization to address continuing emerging science and best practices for mitigating the risk from Infectious Aerosols. IFHE has played a strong role in helping WHO with this issue for years, now. We have the chance to come together to do so again. The event will be in Gaeta, Italy, in early May. You can sign up here: https://www.wiac2025.eu/index.
Walt Vernon