Kathmandu: The World Health Organization has appreciated Nepal’s plan to increase taxes on tobacco and alcohol in a bid to widen health coverage of the vulnerable people.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appreciated this plan during his meeting with Nepal’s Health Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet, who is in Geneva to attend seventy-sixth World Health Assembly taking place from May 21-30.
He thanked “Minister Bahadur Basnet for sharing #Nepal’s plans to increase tobacco & alcohol taxes, which will help fund health coverage for those who are vulnerable.” WHO “will continue to support your efforts on typhoid vaccination, to #EndTB & on vector-borne diseases,” the WHO Director-General wrote on Twitter.
Soon after becoming the Health Minister, Basnet has been advocating for increasing taxes on tobacco and alcohol to expand the health coverage of the poor and vulnerable people.
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