• Submitted by: lena campos
• Society
• 05 / 22 / 2012

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Cuba’s health minister Roberto Morales denounced in Geneva on Monday the unequal and unfair global distribution of resources that guarantee universal access to healthcare services.

Regions like Africa and Southeastern Asia, with 37 percent of the world population, bear the highest morbidity levels, that is the proportion of people that get sick in a given site and at a given time, while they only access two percent to the world resources, said Morales in a meeting of health ministers with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), PL news agency reported.

Doctor Morales said that the complex panorama marked by the economic, financial, environmental and food crisis is joined by the danger of war and catastrophes, along with the increase of non-transmissible diseases, population aging and healthcare inequalities.

Just three years away from the deadline to meet the Millennium Development Goals, the indicators thus far reached are unbalanced while the struggle against hunger and poverty continues, said the Cuban government official. He considered it crucial to spread solidarity and expand all South-South and North-South cooperation efforts.

The meeting was called in the context of the 65th World Conference on Health, underway in Geneva until May 25.