Investments in healthcare will help save millions of lives, emphasize the UN. UN: Investments in healthcare contribute to economic growth Healthcare Investments in the health of mothers and newborn children are not only correct from a moral point of view, but also an economically profitable step that will help increase the volume of the global economy by $ 400 billion annually. On Monday, at the opening of the 58th session of the commission on the population and development, said the Executive Director of the UN Foundation in the field of population (Yunfpa) Natalia Kanam. “each invested dollar is multiplied through generations” 62 > 62 > 62 > 62 > 62 > 62 > 62According to her, the prevention of a hypertension alone during pregnancy can save 70 thousand lives per year and bring $ 1.4 billion of economic benefits. “Each invested dollar brings return, which is multiplied through generations, improving the health of mothers, expanding access to family planning, reducing the number of children’s marriages and strengthening gender equality,” said Kanem. ~ 60 > 60 > she also reminded that the global maternal mortality rate has decreased by 40 by 40 percent. “This is evidence of what can be achieved when we act and invest,” Kanem emphasized. For the first time in history, no country is classified as having an “extremely high” level of maternal mortality. 60 > nonetheless, every two minutes in the world from pregnancy or childbirth, a woman dies. Most of these deaths can be prevented, the head of the Yunfpa noted. ~ 60 > “Behind every death is a clinic without the necessary drugs, a community without qualified midwives and a crisis in which basic medical care is not available,” said Kanam, adding almost a million in the world today. Obstetrook. She urged the states to urgently take measures to provide millions of people with access to the main medical services, including voluntary family planning, safe births and protection against violence. ~ 60 > shortage Financing ~ 60 > at the opening of the session of the Population and Development Commission, which this year coincided with the World of Health Day, representatives of the UN also recalled the chronic lack of financing in a number of countries. Despite the progress of the last decades, many goals in the field of healthcare were not achieved. 60 ~ p >The Deputy General of the UN Secretary for Politics, Gai Ryder emphasized that “health, is essentially the basis of social and economic progress.” According to him, the improvement of indicators, such as life expectancy and a decrease in child mortality, indicates that in the presence of political will and investment, significant shifts are possible. ~ 60 >~ 60 > rider expressed concern that even basic health measures, including services in the field of sexual and reproductive. Health, still does not receive adequate financing. This leads to diseases and deaths that could have been avoided. He called for new global obligations, especially in supporting sustainable primary health care systems in developing countries. ~ 60 > Deputy Secretary General of Economic and Social Issues Lee Zzyunhua pointed out extremely uneven distribution of global resources in the field Medicine. 60 > “Health costs are still extremely uneven in different countries, while the average level in many of the poor is significantly lower than the minimum threshold value necessary to achieve the goal of sustainable development number three,” said Zzyunhua. This situation, according to him, negatively affects not only the health of the population, but also on education, employment and economics. ~ 60 > in these conditions, whether international measures aimed at facilitating debt burden and expansion of financing are extremely important. He emphasized the importance of introducing new mechanisms, such as writing off debts in exchange for investments in medicine.