UNITED NATIONS: Health expenses push 6 percent of people in low and middle income countries into extreme poverty, showed a new report released here Friday (Saturday in the Philippines) by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.
Speaking at the report’s release, Tessa Tan Torres-Edejer, WHO coordinator of health systems financing, said that this equated to 69 million people who are tipped or further pushed into extreme poverty by health costs.
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