THE WORLD IS AT RISK! FROM THE "W.H.O PANDEMIC TREATY"

THE WORLD IS AT RISK! By THE "WHO PANDEMIC TREATY"

World Health Organization calls for treaty to shield against next pandemic, The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics. As the 'W.H.O' reaches draft consensus on future pandemic treaty

Dr. Tess Lawrie - The World is At Risk - The WHO Pandemic Treaty
Published April 18, 2022

Dr. Tess Lawrie joins us to discuss the progress of the World Council for Health, as well as information about the WHO Pandemic Treaty - an agreement that seeks to supersede every nation's constitution and imprison the world.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says the world has not worked well together to confront the current COVID-19 pandemic.

"Everybody has seen to what extent we were really disorganized and all have seen the failures of the global system," Tedros says.

COVID-19 pandemic shows "we don't have rules of the game"
Those failures during the current pandemic have been many, says Tedros.

The first was the slow response to containing the initial outbreak, say public health specialists. They also point to conflicts over the lack of transparency and information sharing, particularly by China. Some countries were accused of hoarding of medical supplies. Then when vaccines were finally developed, poorer nations have complained that they weren't shared equitably. A final concern, the experts say: The global response to the crisis is led by an underfunded World Health Organization that has no power to force any nation to do anything.

But critiques of the WHO’s effectiveness and appropriateness pre-date Ebola and go well beyond pandemic preparedness and response in scope. Questions have been asked and continue to be asked about the WHO’s role in global governance and development. The Ebola failures have only served to bring those fundamental issues to the fore.

The WHO was established in 1948 with a long list of functions defined in its Constitution [pdf] – which has been signed