By TIOL News Service
NEW DELHI, MAY 19, 2020 : DR Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, participated in the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) through Video Conference, here yesterday. India's response on address of Director General, World Health Organization (WHO), delivered by Dr. Harsh Vardhan who said that India has supplied essential medicines to 123 nations as an expression of solidarity.
He said, "Therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines for the whole world is the only way out of this pandemic. Global collaboration is paramount. Governments, industry and philanthropy must pool resources to pay for the risk, the research, manufacturing and distribution, but with the condition that the rewards should be available to everyone, regardless of where they have been developed."
The Health Minister also emphasised, "I stand here to honour the doctors, the nurses, the paramedics, the scientists, the journalists, the delivery boys, security staff, sanitation staff and the police personnel - the forgotten roles who are today playing ‘super humans'. They are our real heroes."