More health care investment needed - WHO

By By Stephanie Nebehay
Updated September 22 2019 - 2:23pm, first published 2:19pm
Dr Peter Salama says half of the world's 7.7 bn people are covered by essential health services.
Dr Peter Salama says half of the world's 7.7 bn people are covered by essential health services.

Governments must boost spending on primary health care by at least an additional one per cent of their gross domestic product to widen coverage and stop impoverishing patients, the World Health Organisation says.

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