‘Urgent’ need to promote universal basic health-care coverage, says Vatican prelate

May 22, 2015

In an address to the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers said that “urgent action” is needed to address serious health-care deficiencies in impoverished nations.

Stating that over half of the world’s rural population lacks access to basic health care, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski said that “in 2015 we are still a long way from universal coverage” and that the Holy See wished “to stress the role of public-private partnership in promoting universal coverage.”

 

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Further information:

• Salute pubblica obiettivo primario (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 2)
• Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly (World Health Organization)