"The global community certainly needs to prepare itself to deal with upcoming pandemics in the future. If we see, the pandemic can repeat itself whether in the next 30 or 50 years," she noted in a discussion titled "Talk Show on G20 Health" on Wednesday.
Tarmizi remarked that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a broad impact on global health and economic conditions in developed, middle-income, and low-income nations.
In addition, Indonesia's Presidency in the G20 proposed the three agendas of health architecture, energy transformation, and digitalization.
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"Usually, the G20 only speaks about the economic aspect, but now, it is extraordinary. The health aspect is one of the important topics in the discussion of the G20 countries, and we know that the G20 countries are superpowers," she affirmed.
Tarmizi said that through the G20, Indonesia aimed to present global solutions to address common health challenges.
Indonesia's Presidency in the G20 focused on several points in the health sector: the harmonization of health protocols, strengthening global health resilience, and expanding manufacturing networks and hubs for vaccines, diagnostics, and other medical devices.
Moreover, Indonesia will hold the 2nd Health Ministerial Meeting (HMM) on October 27-28, 2022, which is the last meeting on the health sector during Indonesia's 2022 G20 Presidency that discusses five focus areas.
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The five focus areas are encouraging global actors’ commitment to the Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF), pushing for attempts to mobilize better medical handling during global health emergencies, and strengthening the global pathogen surveillance network.
The fourth area is the pilot implementation of new international protocols to facilitate international mobility of people, goods, and services amid a global health emergency, and the fifth is proposing more equitable global research and development network, vaccine development and manufacturing, as well as therapeutic and diagnostic system,
During the discussion of the G20 meeting in the health sector, the delegates will provide inputs on these topics.
All of these inputs will become a joint agreement in realizing a global health architecture, which will then become a joint commitment of all G20 heads of state at the G20 Summit in Bali at the end of November 2022.
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