On the occasion of World Health Day, which is designated on April 7th every year, and as part of the protection and promotion of citizens' health, the Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands is organising an event aimed at informing the public about achieving optimal levels of health and well-being.
The event will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024, Annunziata Square from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm and will include a public demonstration of CPR with a defibrillator with the assistance of the EKAB (Ambulance Service) educational team and the participation of other organisations.
Furthermore, we inform the public that WHO is celebrating its founding day on Sunday, April 7, marking its 76th anniversary this year. The theme of World Health Day this year is: "My health, my right". It reaffirms what WHO has affirmed since its inception on April 7, 1948: that health is a fundamental right of all people, not a privilege. At least 140 countries recognise the right to health in their constitutions.
According to WHO, the messages of the Day are as follows:
- Around the world, the right to health of millions is increasingly coming under threat.
- Diseases and disasters loom large as causes of death and disability.
- Conflicts are devastating lives, causing death, pain, hunger and psychological distress.
- The burning of fossil fuels is simultaneously driving the climate crisis and taking away our right to breathe clean air, with indoor and outdoor air pollution claiming a life every 5 seconds.
- The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has found that at least 140 countries recognize health as a human right in their constitution. Yet countries are not passing and putting into practice laws to ensure their populations are entitled to access health services. This underpins the fact that at least 4.5 billion people — more than half of the world’s population — were not fully covered by essential health services in 2021.
- To address these types of challenges, the theme for World Health Day 2024 is 'My health, my right’.
- This year’s theme was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.
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