Patrick Davies, head of the Gate Foundation in Ghana, illustrates the dire need for trained healthcare professionals to address neglected tropical skin diseases. These issues, affecting a significant portion of the population and causing disability, have historically received little attention. However, a recent resolution from the World Health Assembly, spurred by countries like Ivory Coast, acknowledges skin diseases as a global health problem, urging integration into health coverage strategies and better training for medical teams, especially in low-resource settings. This milestone is key to prioritizing skin health in public health discussions.
Although this is a first step and national health systems still need to develop policies to implement the resolution, experts agree that the measure opens a new path for skin conditions to be seen not merely as an aesthetic issue but as a global public health priority.
They call me because there is no one else – no trained doctors or diagnostic resources – so they rely solely on my years of experience on the ground.
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