Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Yesterday was international nurses day and a moment to celebrate those critical frontline health workers saving the lives of people with COVID-19, Ebola and many other diseases.
As the world celebrated nurses, I was shocked and appalled to hear of the attack on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan, which led to the deaths of nurses, mothers and babies.Civilians and health workers should never be a target and as my colleague and dear friend Mike Ryan said last week, the weaponisation of health is not helping anywhere.We need health and peace.We need peace for health and health for peace.And we need it now!In the time of a global pandemic, I urge all stakeholders to put aside politics and prioritize