The World Health Organization’s group of “experts” convened to address energy access in healthcare.
When I wrote the first drafts of a book for the World Health Organization (WHO), Health in the Green Economy (anticipated publication date this fall), we attempted to create a crude approximation of greenhouse gas emissions for the Global Health Sector. Data was scant – we had to use various reports we had from different countries on size of health sector, emissions from parts of the sector, etc, but it was a fascinating exercise. One thing we realized was that much of the world contains health facilities that have NO access to energy, or maybe more frequently, poor access to energy. This raised all kinds of issues. (more…)
