Foundation makes case for new dev’t dialogue in health features

The Founder and President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Mrs Toyin Saraki has called for Action and a New Development Dialogue to ensure Health futures at World Economic Forum 50th Annual Meeting 2020, Davos in Switzerland.

Mrs Saraki, notes this at the just concluded World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting said water, sanitation and hygiene results are falling dangerously behind and nowhere is inequality more stark than in the health conditions of women, children, and adolescents. 

Around the world, she said people are revolting against the economic elites, which they have believe have betrayed them. 

She said between the year 2010 and 2015, they have measured a 35% increase in maternity survival due to the introduction of the Midwives Service Scheme which saw 4400 more midwives deployed within the public health system. 

According to her “As the world unites to celebrate this 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife, I hope to mobilise support and resources for midwifery competencies, to demonstrate safer birth solutions for healthy futures for all within the Davos Manifesto 2020.”  

“This year’s meeting, which focuses on the theme ‘Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World,’ brought together nearly 3,000 participants from 117 countries, including 53 heads of state and leaders from business, civil society, academia, media and the arts. 

“These include the 100,000 Women Campaign to transform the lives of over 100,000 women entrepreneurs in Lower and Middle-Income Countries by 2022, of the Cherie Blair Foundation; a fireside discussion on equality in the workplace hosted by the Female Quotient and Boston Consulting Group.

“We have measured considerable impact which gives us the courage to now insist on a rapid acceleration of our best-practice models engaging midwives as sanitation angels, to national scale.”

“As I reflect on the past few years of World Economic Forum meetings, my thinking has evolved and it has become more widely accepted that the donor-recipient model of development is no longer fit for purpose. 

“Primary health is the essential building block to ignite midwifery competencies which will fuel specialist expertise – relying on competencies on both sides and whole-system support,” she said.

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