The activities of the first session of the World Youth Forum platform sessions, scheduled to be held, November 9, in the Green Zone, concluded within the activities of the (COP27) conference under the title of Clean Energy and Health in cooperation with the World Health Organization.
The session was attended by Naima Hassan Kassir, WHO Representative in Egypt, Salvatore Vinci: Sustainable Energy Adviser at WHO, Malik Mamanour: WHO Representative in Somalia, and Mohamed Ali: Climate Change Expert, Member of the UNFCCC List of Experts Climate change.
The session focused on maximizing the use of renewable and environmentally friendly energy to improve the quality of the health sector worldwide, specifically in poor and developing countries that suffer from lack of electricity and energy in their hospitals located in remote and densely populated areas.
The session discussed a number of points such as the role of clean energy in health services and how the use of electricity and clean energy in health care facilities can be improved and developed, and how to shift towards clean transportation through renewable energies. The session also dealt with the pivotal role of electricity and renewable energy projects in raising the efficiency of the health level of citizens and reducing pollution rates, taking the "State of Somalia" as a model.
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Kassir stated that the World Bank announced during the past few days the provision of one billion dollars to support countries in improving health and environmentally friendly services, and expressed her happiness that the organization was invited to speak on this matter and in an important global event such as COP27).
Vinci also stated that electricity and diesel generators are at a high cost, using them to supply hospitals and health facilities with electricity and energy, while solar energy systems today are 80% cheaper than before, so what makes us slow in using this clean and sustainable energy, which will enable us to save more lives in poor and remote areas.
Malik added that every human being, everywhere on the face of the earth, has the right to obtain good health care, and this cannot happen without electricity.
And advice to you and all of us, do not stay long in the comfort zone, but strive to renew and think outside the box to find solutions to our problems in general, and we must know that if we work alone in our local communities, we will not reach what we hope for. The World Health Organization, the World Bank, and others.
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Salvatore commented on the intervention of one of the young people who attended the session asking about the future of the transition to renewable energy, specifically solar energy. He said that solar energy systems are very simple to operate if the trained human element is available to operate, maintain and maintain these systems.
Muhammad Ali concluded the session by saying that health, energy and climate change are interlinked elements and not isolated islands. The health sector needs energy, and this energy should be clean so as not to harm the environment or contribute to more greenhouse gas emissions that harm the climate.
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