#HealthyRecovery from COVID-19 Crisis

That the Parliament notes that on 26 May 2020 over 350 organisations representing over 40 million health professionals, as well as over 4,500 individual health professionals from 90 different countries, wrote to the G20 leaders calling for a #HealthyRecovery from the COVID-19 crisis; considers that the public health impact of the COVID-19 outbreak has been exacerbated by inequality and under-investment in public health systems; further considers that these effects could have been mitigated by adequate investments in pandemic preparedness, public health and environmental stewardship; notes the letter’s call that people learn from these mistakes and build healthier, more resilient societies; notes the demand that leaders commit to tackling air pollution and climate change, which it considers, if left unaddressed, will have a catastrophic impact on public health; agrees with the call for chief medical officers and chief scientific advisers to be directly involved in the production of all economic stimulus packages and report on the short- and long-term public health repercussions that these may have, and calls on the Scottish Government to embed efforts to improve public health and tackle climate change in any economic recovery package.