New Delhi: Who on Wednesday called for strengthening cooperation between health and Environmental Sector Addressing shared challenges.
He urged that public health Motivating the community to join efforts in this direction Land restorationpreventing desertification and building Drought Tolerance

“The worrying reality is that malaria causes the most deaths in our region.” Climate change “Climate change and biodiversity loss, which is increasing every year across all WHO regions, are already posing major threats to health, regional economies and livelihoods in our region,” Wajed said.

World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June, it was established in 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

This year the focus is on land restoration, preventing desertification and building drought resilience under the slogan “Our Land. Our Future. We are #GenerationRestoration”.

“We have prioritized reducing the impacts of air pollution and hazardous chemicals, strengthening health facilities to climate change, and focusing on clean and adequate drinking water, basic sanitation and hygiene,” he said.

Practical and innovative methods health sector Steps to combat land restoration, desertification and drought include integrating health impact assessments into land use planning processes.

Wazed said this could include assessing potential health impacts of proposed projects on air and water quality, food security, and threats such as drought and desertification.

It also includes implementing green building practices and sustainable infrastructure in healthcare facilities to reduce their environmental footprint and contribute to land restoration efforts. This may include incorporating green spaces into hospital designs to promote healing and wellness.

Wazed said there should be community-based health promotion, empowering communities to take ownership of land restoration and conservation initiatives through participatory health promotion programmes.

He also stressed the need to build climate-resilient health care systems to better withstand the impacts of climate change, including drought and desertification, and to train health workers in climate adaptation and emergency response strategies.