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WHO emergencies team run short of funding as health crises multiply

Thu, 2024-05-30 11:08 — mike kraft
WHO emergencies team faces funding crunch as health crises multiply The World Health Organization's emergencies department is facing “existential threats” as multiplying health crises have left it so short of cash that it needed emergency funds to pay staff salaries at the end of last year, an independent report said. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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It will likely have to ask for funding again to cover salaries up to June, the document, released ahead of the WHO’s annual meeting in Geneva this week, said.
 
In 2023, the department responded to 72 emergencies. They included earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, conflict in Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza, and a large global cholera outbreak.
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