More than half the world’s population lack basic health services as progress stalls

Progress towards providing the world with universal healthcare is stagnating and more than half of the global population are still not covered by essential health services, a joint report from the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group has found.Health service coverage has been improving at a considerable pace since the start of the century, but progress has slowed since 2015 when the sustainable development goals were adopted, says the 2023 global monitoring report, Tracking Universal Health Coverage.1From 2019 to 2021 no improvement was seen in free healthcare coverage, and the number of people left out of pocket was found to be rising, warned WHO ahead of the high level meeting on universal healthcare at the 78th United Nations General Assembly, held in New York from 20 September.WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “The covid-19 pandemic was a reminder that healthy societies and economies depend on healthy people….
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