The World Health Day , celebrated on April 7 on the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO), is marked this year by the launching of an awareness campaign to the need of greater access to healthcare. “ Building a fairer and healthier world ” is the motto for this day and campaign, through which the WHO asks for global action and concrete initiatives towards reversing the inequalities that the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated and exposed even further. Up to last April 1, over 2.8 million people had died due to COVID-19 all over the world and over 130 million were affected by the pandemic, “ which revealed inequality and unfairness in the national health services ”, stresses the WHO. Namely, “there are people with healthier life conditions and that have better access to health services, than others, due to the existing inequalities in terms of social standing and the conditions they are born, grow, live and work in”. However, “this is not only unfair, but avoidable”. People more affected by COVID-19, further reminds that United Nations’ organization, “are those who are less capable of coping with it”, namely: Elderly and people with pre-existing serious conditions; People socially deprived and with serious health conditions, such as cardiac disease and diabetes; People with no access to internet, unable to receive the latest protective information; people with no means to afford treatment; The socially excluded, such as, for instance, homeless people or migrants who face obstacles to get official support. World Health Day 2021
