At the third Health Working Group of G20 India, at Hyderabad, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan cautioned that the next pandemic would not “wait for us to make global treaties” and called on countries to work together as billions of lives and livelihoods will be at stake.        

Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergency Programme, stated that its time countries came together to ensure drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics reached people in need in an equitable manner.        

During the event, Alain Labrique, Director of the Department of Digital Health and Innovation, WHO, said that digital health is about : 

He stressed that no one should be left behind and that digital health is a proven route to achieving universal health goals.          

Member (Health) of NITI Aayog, V.K. Paul expressed that digital health enabled universal health coverage through the continuous exchange of health information amongst providers, systems, patients, policymakers, and so on. “Let us envision a world where a comprehensive package of digital health tools and services are accessible to all, where digital health is for all by 2035,” Dr. Paul said.