India to participate in Global Health Summit. This Global Health Summit will be co-hosted by Italy. This year Italy will co-host as the chair of the G20 group and the European Commission.
India will be represented by its Sherpa for G20 Suresh Prabhu at the meet that will take place on May 21.
The main focus of the Global Health meet will be the “Rome Declaration” which will focus on lessons learn from this Covid pandemic.
Prior of the summit, Italy Prime Minister Mario Draghi said that the summit “will provide a timely opportunity to share the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will discuss how to improve health security, strengthen our health systems and enhance our ability to deal with future crises in a spirit of solidarity.”
According to information, G20 member countries, 3 guest countries –Singapore, Spain, and the Netherlands, Portugal as the President of the council of EU, Norway as the Co-Chair of the ACT-Accelerator, and Switzerland. Other than that, international and regional organizations such as the UN, WHO, IMF, OECD, AU, ASEAN, WTO, FAO, GAVI, Global Fund.
Members from New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) will also participate.