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As the fight against COVID-19 continues, global health experts are also focusing on how countries can strengthen their resilience during the pandemic. The World Bank is working on rapid response operations and helping countries access critical medical equipment and supplies. Countries also have an opportunity to strengthen health financing and increase resilience, preserve hard-fought gains against malnutrition, and improve digital infrastructure to support new health technologies.
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A new blog from Axel van Trotsenburg, the World Bank’s Managing Director of Operations, describes how the World Bank is focused on saving lives by helping client countries implement emergency health operations. This means strengthening health facilities, ensuring that enough frontline health workers are in place and well trained, and helping the necessary medical supplies and equipment get through despite the added pressures on supply chains and trade flows.
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