City’s Dr Edmond to address global summit

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Dec 12, 2017: City based Dr Edmond Fernandes, founder and CEO, CHD Group – Centre for Health and Development and Member – Health Task Force, DDMA, Government of Karnataka, has been invited as a speaker at the Global Partnership Summit (GPS) 2017 to be held at Aerocity, New Delhi.

 

The Global Partnership Summit has evolved from the India Japan Global Partnership initiative and is a platform to integrate ideologies, projects, initiatives, people and processes. It allows for global partners to share knowledge, resources and expertise and work towards a common objective of establishing inclusivity. It also intends to converge the needs of today into the viability of tomorrow, thus becoming a formidable platform to take forward the mission of an all-encompassing, holistic development framework.

Dr Edmond Fernandes will discuss the theme on “How to Bring 7 Billion People under an Inclusive Healthcare System” at the Summit. Access to healthcare is a glwobal discussion and there are no easy answers, increasing disease burden, rural to urban migration and sedentary lifestyle is complicating the processes to achieve universal healthcare. The ability to create additional healthcare resources and service innovation will be the key to creating an inclusive health system.