Paynesville - Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai, in his capacity as Chairman of the ‘One Health Coordinator Platform’ (OHCP) has endorsed the declaration of commitment to institutionalize the one health approach in Liberia. The Declaration of Commitment was signed by representatives of line ministries and agencies at the official launch in June, 2017. The Vice President noted that one of the strategies to get the country to better deal with any major public health event is the institutionalization of the One Health approach in the form of a coordination to productively facilitate the collaboration of multi-sector entities in addressing those public health issues that cannot be solved by a single sector. “This signing of the Declaration of Commitment for One Health Coordination speaks to our Government’s support to this institutionalization process. He further averred that following the Ebola outbreak in 2014 which killed more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the one health approach was proposed as a strategy to harness the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally and globally to attain an optimal health for people, animals, plants and the environment.

Source: Front Page Africa October 12, 2017 04:18 UTC