While the distribution of vaccines for the new coronavirus creates a gap between developed and developing countries, WHO = World Health Organization will open a training base for engineers in developing countries and other countries to manufacture vaccines and medicines. We have announced that we would like to develop human resources to close the vaccine gap in the future.
Regarding the vaccine for the new corona, while the third vaccination is progressing in developed countries with domestic production capacity, there are many people in developing countries who have not been vaccinated even once, and the disparity is widening, WHO In the future, it is necessary for developing countries themselves to acquire production capacity.
"One of the big lessons of the pandemic is the urgent need to increase vaccine production capacity in low- and middle-income countries," WHO Secretary-General Tedros said at a press conference on Thursday. Announced that it will open a training base in South Korea to train engineers in developing countries for the manufacture of medicines used for the treatment of vaccines.
According to WHO, the Korean government provided a training facility near the capital Seoul, and in the future, we would like to accept trainees from each country and promote the development of human resources who can manufacture high-quality medicines in developing countries. is.
WHO is accelerating efforts by developing countries to increase their drug manufacturing capacity, including the opening of a technology transfer base in South Africa last year for the technology transfer of one of the new corona vaccines, the mRNA vaccine.