The Minister of Health of the Republic of Türkiye, H.E. Dr. Fahrettin Koca, chaired the Health Session of the 3^rd Türkiye-Africa Partnership Summit. The session titled “Mobilizing the Potential for African Health Needs During and After the Pandemic Era” was attended by the African CDC Head of Emergency Operations Center, Health Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Libya, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Angola, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO).

H.E. Dr. Fahrettin Koca, who delivered the opening speech and moderated the session, emphasized that the COVID-19 pandemic had added new links to the global chain of inequality and injustice. Only 0.6 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines administered in the world have been administered in the African continent, and only one-fourth of healthcare workers in Africa have been vaccinated, he added. He also stated that Türkiye had supported 45 countries in Africa since the early days of the pandemic and donated 1 million doses of vaccine. He underlined that Türkiye will also donate10 million doses of vaccine through the COVAX Facility, most of which to Africa.

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