Dr Syed Jaffar Hussein, His Excellency Dr Omar Bashir Al-Tahir and participants of the World Health Day 2018 seminarUniversal health coverage is also the main engine for implementing Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals and could facilitate the provision of preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative services not only to the Libyan people, but to migrants and other vulnerable populations residing in the country. While the basic pillars of universal health coverage apply universally, the application of universal health coverage may differ from country to country and from context to context. WHO has estimated that in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region, as many as 55.5 million people face financial hardship and as many as 7.7 million are pushed into poverty every year because of excessive out-of-pocket payments on health care.Dr Syed Jaffar Hussein, His Excellency Dr Omar Bashir Al-Tahir and
"Celebrating World Health Day is a symbolic event to remind ourselves of the importance of promoting health for all”, said His Excellency Dr Omar Bashir Al-Tahir, Minister of Health, in his opening remarks, and noted that "Libya is one of the countries in the world that has the largest number of health centres at different levels and specialties”.
“We need a serious and genuine effort to achieve efficiency in the provision of health services and this requires cooperation between most ministries, partners and decision-making institutions" he said.
