Answer:
First of all, I would like to express how happy I am to be with you this morning.
I thank His Excellency the Prime Minister and the Government of Kazakhstan for your hospitality, and for hosting this very important meeting.
I would actually like to start by answering Yana Panfilova’s request. She said “We need universal health coverage with quality services.”
I fully agree with you Yana, and that is what we are saying here today.
The only thing we are stressing is universal health coverage, with primary health care as its foundation.
So we would like to assure you that we go for health for all, for universal health coverage and for quality.
And I will start by paying tribute to my predecessor, Halfdan Theodor Mahler, by the way whose middle name is the same as my name, who passed away just a couple of years ago.
Explanation:
https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/opening-speech-at-the-global-conference-on-primary-health-care
