Yunus calls for redesigning global healthcare system

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus has called upon the global people to redesign the global healthcare system and pharmaceutical companies to ensure sustainable health for all.

“If you pay only $5 a year, imagine only $5, and you don’t have to pay it at one go. You can have a guaranteed healthcare system with reputed healthcare institutions,” he said.

“It’s possible and financially sustainable,” said Professor Yunus spelling out his dream for a global healthcare system where both rich and poor will have a guaranteed healthcare system.

The 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus made this call Wednesday while speaking at a side-line event on health services at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

It has to be done in a financially sustainable way, he said adding, “it should not be treated as a charity from the government.”

“If it is treated as a charity from the government it will have to be dependent on the fate of the government,” he said.

“But it will be sustainable if it is based on a financially sustainable manner,” he said.

Professor Yunus said the quality of a civilisation can be reviewed by the quality of health services they provide to the people.

“In today’s world very few countries have good healthcare systems,” he said.

“But it can be done very easily in a financially sustainable manner,” Muhammad Yunus added.

Earlier in the day, Prof Yunus delivered his address at the opening session of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit at COP29.

Besides, he spoke at a meeting with the Social Business Group on the sidelines of the global climate meet today.

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