‘Healthy environment = healthy citizenry’Local and international health officials yesterday underscored the wisdom of addressing environmental concerns to improve the health status of the citizenry. ”As a public health practitioner, I know that health cannot be improved without addressing the environment. ”For us in the health sector, provision of healthcare services takes a lot of our time. Yet more hospitals, more doctors, and more nurses are not always the answer to the problems we face,” Ubial noted. Likewise, Ibrahim Thiaw, the United Nations Environment Programme deputy executive director and United Nations assistant secretary-general, believes that there could be no healthy people without a healthy environment.

Source: Manila Bulletin October 08, 2016 14:03 UTC