Well being methods will proceed to stay beneath strain and we have to stay able to deal with the pandemic and any potential ones sooner or later, stated Well being and Meals Security Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, in an deal with at an occasion on the Glafcos Clerides Institute on the Way forward for Europe.
She stated the proper to well timed, inexpensive and curable healthcare is for all and that is the European lifestyle, including that the pandemic highlighted the weaknesses and inequalities of nations’ healthcare methods and that we should be taught to dwell with the virus for a couple of extra years to come back.
Well being care methods, she added, will proceed to come back beneath strain and we should stay prepared for this pandemic and another well being threats sooner or later.
She spoke a few European feat achieved by the EU and the instance of cooperation throughout the pandemic, including that the imaginative and prescient for a European well being union and collegiality in actions helps for a robust restoration from the pandemic and can assist us put together for future disaster.
The Restoration and Resilience Fund, she stated, was set as much as mitigate member states from the repercussions of the pandemic and for economies to be sustainable, resilient and higher ready for the inexperienced and digital transitions.
Indicatively, 37 billion euros will likely be spent on the well being sector, together with €12 billion for the transition to digital well being. Cyprus will obtain €70 million, she added.
(CNA)