World Health Day is celebrated in Ukraine on April 7, the purpose of which is to celebrate the importance of health in our lives, involve the public in solving physical and mental problems, raise awareness of various diseases, provide recommendations for improving well-being and health, encourage to a healthy lifestyle.
This day was started in honor of the establishment and adoption of the charter of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. ITS headquarters are in Geneva, it consists of 194 member states. The main function of the organization is to solve international health problems of the Earth’s population.
Among the main theses of WHO are:
- Health for all means good health and a full life for every person in a prosperous and sustainable world without wars and conflicts.
- The right to health is one of the basic human rights. Everyone should be able to receive the necessary medical care at any time and in any place, without experiencing financial difficulties.
- Thirty percent of people do not have access to basic health care services.
- Nearly two billion people face catastrophically high and devastating health care costs as a result of severe inequities that hit the most vulnerable populations first.
- Universal health coverage (UHC) provides financial protection and access to quality basic health care, helps people to rise out of poverty and strengthen family and community well-being, protects the population from harmful health crises, and helps us achieve the goal of ensuring health for all.
- In order for health for all to become a reality, we need to ensure that each person and each population group, taking care of their health and the health of their loved ones, can receive high-quality medical care; that qualified healthcare workers provide effective care to people, taking into account their needs and interests; and authorities have purposefully allocated resources to ensure universal health coverage.
- The COVID-19 pandemic has set back progress in providing health for all in every country.
- Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies in the field of health care, humanitarian crises and climatic cataclysms, economic problems and military operations, the task of countries to ensure health for all becomes even more urgent. It is time for leaders to fulfill their commitments to achieving universal health coverage and for civil society to monitor their actions.
WHO urges people: “Demand your right to receive the necessary medical care, the provision of which should not cause financial difficulties!”.
April 7, 1969 is also the symbolic birth date of the Internet.
Also on this day they celebrate:
- Geologist’s Day;
- Motherhood and Beauty Day in Armenia;
- Flag Day in Slovenia;
- International Beaver Day;
- National Beer Day in the USA;
- Engineer’s Day in Jordan;
- Rwanda Genocide Remembrance Day;
- Women’s Day in Mozambique.
According to the new church calendar, today the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Saints George and Daniel.
According to the old church calendar, today is a great holiday – the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. This holiday is celebrated in connection with the event when the Archangel Gabriel gave the Virgin Mary the message from the Holy Spirit that she would conceive immaculately from the Holy Spirit and give birth to the Son of God.
