KEDMUN’23

WHO- “Harnessing the potential of digital technologies and

innovation for health services delivery and health systems
strengthening”
Delegate of GERMANY
BERLIN is the capital of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
What is GSL?
- It is basically the opening speech
ALIES
1. France
2. USA
For GSL
“The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to establish a
GSL/Moderated Caucus with each speaker’s time being 60/90
seconds and the total time being ______ minutes.”
To suspend GSL
“The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to suspend
the GSL and move into a Moderated or Unmoderated caucus with
the total time being ______ minutes.”
For mod
“The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to establish a
moderated caucus on the topic (topic) for the total time being (time)
minutes and individual speaker's time being (time) seconds.”
“The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to suspend
informal debate and move into a moderated caucus on the topic
For unmod
 “The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to suspend
formal debate and move into an unmoderated caucus for the total
time being 1 hour”
To extend time
“The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to extend the
time for the unmoderated caucus from _____ minutes to____
minutes.”

CHITS
1. Delegate to Delegate (not via EB)
- Used for important discussions in the conference without
the need to send it through the EB
2. Delegate to Delegate (via EB)
- A question or answer chit of a POI, verbal or through a chit.
- You are to write via EB on the top corner of any such chit.
- These chits are marked by the EBs and its crucial to keep
them formal and relevant to the committee.
3. Delegate to EB
- Also known as a substantive chit it is to provide any missing
information you find crucial to the committee.
- It can also have any missing content that you were n
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- ot able to say during your speech.
GSL
Honorable chair and fellow delegates
Germany is a member state of the WHO and it actively participates in
the organizations activities and initiatives related to public health.
Through our ministry of health and other relevant government
agencies we collaborate with WHO on various public health matters-
this includes disease surveillance, health promotion, and responding
to global health emergencies such as the covid 19 pandemic.
Germany is also the largest donor to the WHO contingency Fund for
emergencies, having contributed more than 115 million US dollars in
flexible funding since 2015, including 31 million US dollars in 2021
and 211 million US dollars in 2022
Our aim is to provide accessible and high-quality healthcare to all the
citizens of Germany. Although it is also important to keep in mind
that the Germany healthcare can be complex due to the dual
insurance system and individuals may need to choose between
statutory and private insurance options based on their personal
circumstances
Dual Insurance: Germany has a dual healthcare system, consisting of
public and private health insurance. Most residents are covered by
the statutory health insurance which is mandatory for those with
income below a certain threshold. Whereas the typically higher
individuals opt for private health insurance.
Universal coverage: Germany provides universal healthcare coverage
which ensures that all residents have access to necessary healthcare
services. This includes citizens, permanent residents and even some
non-residents.
Primary care physicians: most healthcare in Germany begins with a
visit to a primary care physician known as hausarzt. They act as the
gatekeepers to specialized care and provide initial diagnoses and
referrals when necessary
1. Specialized Care: Germany boasts a highly specialized and
advanced healthcare system. Patients have access to a wide
range of specialists and medical facilities, including hospitals
and clinics, for both general and specialized care.
2. Short Wait Times: In general, Germany has relatively short wait
times for medical services and procedures. Timely access to
healthcare is a priority, and waiting lists are typically well-
managed.
3. High-Quality Care: The quality of healthcare in Germany is
consistently ranked among the best in the world. The country is
known for its medical research, advanced technologies, and
highly trained medical professionals.
4. Prescription Medications: Prescription medications are widely
available, and they are often covered by health insurance.
Patients may need to make co-payments for medications.
5. Cost Sharing: Those with statutory health insurance are
required to make contributions based on their income. This
cost-sharing system helps ensure equitable access to care. Co-
payments are also common for doctor's visits and medications.
6. Maternity Care: Germany provides comprehensive maternity
care, including prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal services.
Midwives play an important role in maternal care.
7. Preventive Care: Preventive care and health promotion are
essential components of the healthcare system. Regular check-
ups and screenings are encouraged to detect health issues
early.
8. Emergency Care: Germany has a well-developed emergency
medical system. Patients can access emergency services at any
 time, and there are numerous emergency departments and
ambulances available.
9. Dental Care: Dental care in Germany is not fully covered by
statutory health insurance, and individuals are often required to
have separate dental insurance or pay for dental services out of
pocket.
10. Long-Term Care: Germany has an extensive system for long-
term care, including nursing homes and home care services for
elderly and disabled individuals.
11. Digital Health: Germany has been working to incorporate
digital technologies into healthcare, including electronic health
records and telemedicine services.
12. Medical Tourism: Due to the high quality of healthcare,
Germany is a destination for medical tourism, with patients
from around the world seeking medical treatment and
procedures.

GAZA-ISRAEL WAR
- Germany believes that it has a historic responsibility to
support Israel
- This goes back to the previous chancellor, Angela Merkel,
who coined the phrase (speaking German) on a visit to Israel.
This is literally translated as reason of state in German, and it
means that the security and existence of Israel is tied to the
foundation of modern Germany, given the atrocities that
Germany committed against Jews in the Holocaust during
World War II. Now, that is important for those outside of
Germany to understand because it helps explain the
country's strict response to pro-Palestinian rallies and
protests that we've seen here in Berlin since the Hamas
attack on October 7. After Chancellor Scholz visited Israel
 and Egypt. He spoke at the Bundestag, Germany's
Parliament, about threats posed to Jews here in Germany.
MODERATED CAUCUS
“The delegate of Germany would like to raise a motion to suspend
formal debate and move into a moderated caucus on the topic (topic)
for the total time being (time) minutes and individual speaker's time
being (time) seconds.”
TOPIC:
- Discussing digital privacy and security regarding healthcare
and online data (China)
- Syrian Refugee crisis (Ireland)
- Exploring how innovation, such as AI, wearable devices, and
healthcare apps, can optimize health services delivery.
(South Korea)
- Challenges in implementing telehealth/telemedicine services
(Nepal)
- Mental health institutes and physical health institutes for
people living in remote areas. (Iran)
- International Collaboration in strengthening Health Systems
(Kingdom of Spain)
- Digital Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Innovation Hubs
(New Zealand)
- ensuring that digital health solutions are accessible and
affordable for all, including the vulnerable and underserved
populations (The State of Israel)
- development and implement of effective regulatory
frameworks that foster innovation while ensuring patient
safety and quality standards in digital health services (The
State of Israel)
- facilitating cross-border cooperation and partnerships to
maximize the global impact of digital health innovations (The
State of Israel)
- Discussing the potential for collaboration between public
and private sectors in digital health initiatives (The State of
Israel)
- Creating International Guidelines for Remote Patient
Monitoring and Telemedicine (North Korea)
- Discuss the implementation of blockchain technology to
enhance drug traceability and reduce counterfeit medicines.
(The State of Israel)
- Analysing the potential of AI in diagnosing diseases,
treatment planning, and personalized medicine (Australia)
- AI and Job Displacement Mitigation: Discussing innovative
approaches to help healthcare workers transition into other
functions in healthcare to accommodate them as well as AI
in healthcare. (Qatar)
- Discussing ways to support the development of healthcare
infrastructure in low-income countries including improving
access to healthcare facilities, training of healthcare workers
and ensuring the availability of medical equipment and
supplies (Germany)
- How can digital technology contribute towards improving
the mental health of individuals? (Malaysia)
Syrian refugee crisis
- After a decade of conflict, Syria remains the world’s largest
refugee crisis.
- Since 2011 more than 14 million Syrians have been forced tp
flee their homes in search of safety.
- More than 6.8 million Syrians remain internally displaced in
their own country where 70% of the population is in need of
humanitarian assistance and 90% of the population lives
below the poverty line.
- Approx. 5.5 million Syrian refugees live in the five countries
neighboring Syria.
- Germany is the largest non-neighboring host country with
more than 8 lakh 50 thousand Syrian refugees.
- On June 15th 2023 the German govt. said that it would
allocate 1.5 billion euros to help refugee crisis in Syria
- “It would be a fatal mistake to forget the Syrian crisis now”
said the development Minister of Germany Svenja Schulze at
a conference on Syria in Brussels
- Germany also supports the steps taken by Turkey, Lebanon,
Jordan which have accepted 5.6 million Syrian refugees.
 Reuters
 WHO
Challenges in implementing telehealth/telemedicine services
- Telemedicine as a subject has reached politics, doctors, and
patients but it still has not been able to make a leap from
research, development, and testing into real practice, this is
mainly because of the lack of telematics infrastructure and of
payment regulations in Germany.
- Telemedicine projects are mainly isolated applications and it
has not been possible to integrate them in to nationwide
regular health services.
- Other challenges along the path to standard care include
that research-based small-medium enterprise (SME)
companies usually face high barriers hindering access to this
market, because it is impossible for them to finance all the
required evidence-based studies to verify the medical
benefits and the economic efficiency.
- Additionally, a high market nontransparency is noted.
However, the signs of progress are visible, e.g., the E-health
initiative of the German government or recent legislative
initiatives.
- To overcome such issues, we can advocate for investments in
digital infrastructure, particularly in underserved areas to
ensure access to high-speed internet and telehealth
technologies.
- Engage with telehealth associations, industry partners and
telemedicine org. to share practices, experiences and
solutions as collaborative efforts can help overcome
common challenges.
 NIH
Creating International Guidelines for Remote Patient Monitoring and
Telemedicine
- This can ensure quality and safety of these services across
borders
- International collaboration: Where we establish a task force
or working grp consisting of representatives from multiple
countries, including healthcare professionals, policy makes,
legal experts, tech experts and patient advocates
- Technology standards: Promote tech standards that secure
data exchange between telemedicine platforms, electronic
health records and other healthcare systems.
- Promote guidelines that prioritize patient inclusion and
access addressing issues such as ensuring services for
vulnerable populations, language barriers and digital literacy.
- We should also address guidelines for emergency
telemedicine services, including tele triage, disaster response
and critical care consultations which are vital in emergency
situations.
- Looking into creating an international registry or database
for telemedicine services to track and evaluate global
telemedical adoption success stories and challenges can also
prove to be helpful
Discussing ways to support the development of healthcare
infrastructure in low-income countries including improving access to
healthcare facilities, training of healthcare workers and ensuring the
availability of medical equipment and supplies
- Historically, quantity rather than quality of health services
has been the focus in developing countries, ample evidence
shows us that quality of care must be put at the center of
every discussion about better health.
- In a study evaluating pediatric care in Papua New Guinea,
69% of the health center workers reported that they checked
for only two of the four examination criteria for pneumonia
cases. Only 24% of these workers were able to indicate
correct treatment for malaria.
- In another study in Pakistan, only 56% of providers met an
acceptable diagnostic standard for viral diarrhea and only
35% met the acceptable standard for treatment.
- Investing in the construction and renovations of healthcare
facilities, this includes hospitals, clinics, and primary care
centers while focusing on the underserved areas.
- By implementing task shifting strategies, which involve
redistribution of specific healthcare tasks to different cadres
of healthcare workers this can help address healthcare
workforce shortages.
- Establishing maintenance programs for medical equipment
(to ensure that medical equipment remains in working
conditions and can be used effectively), encouraging
development of local medical equipment manufacturing
capabilities (to reduce dependency on imports and lower
costs), Collaboration with international organizations and
manufacturers to donate or provide low cost medical
equipment to healthcare facilities in need can also prove to
be quite helpful
Questions
Afghanistan: Afghanistan has the highest drug consumption in the
world, how and which laws would you pass to combat this challenge?
Columbia: Columbia has the second highest drug consumption in the
world
Source: United nations office on drugs and crime
Discussing digital privacy and security regarding healthcare and
online data
- Since technology is being used so much nowadays there
have been concerns over the privacy and security of
electronic health information.
- Electronic health records stored at individual organizations
are vulnerable to internal or external agents that seek to
violate directly the security and confidentiality policies of a
specific organizations
- The biggest threat to Germany’s cyberspace is and remains
ransomware, the ministry had already warned of digital
extortion attempts in which attackers infiltrate networks to
first tap data and then encrypt it. They then demand a
ransom from the victims
- To combat this German companies particularly the small
ones and local governments are investing far more in cyber
security as increasingly organised hackers see them as easy
targets for ransomware attacks.
- Germany also has a digital healthcare act- DVG- which was
approved on 7th November 2019, this act was to improve the
healthcare provision through digitization and innovation.
- Thank you
Exploring how innovation, such as AI, wearable devices, and
healthcare apps, can optimize health services delivery.
Discussing innovative approaches to help healthcare workers
transition into other functions in healthcare to accommodate them
as well as AI in healthcare.
- Artificial intelligence is a powerful and disruptive area of
computer science with the potential to fundamentally
transform the practice of medicine and the delivery of
healthcare.
- AI Algorithms can analyze vast amount of medical data, this
includes images, genomic data, and patient records, to help
identify patterns and anomalies that might not be obvious to
human healthcare professionals. This can help in early
detection of diseases.
- The focus should also be on piloting of new stepwise
experiments to build AI tools, using tight feedback loops
from stakeholders to facilitate rapid experiential learning and
incremental changes.
- Artificial intelligence in medical imaging is being used in
various regions of Germany to improve healthcare outcomes
and increase efficiency.
- The German cancer research center in Heidelberg is using AI
powered medical imaging to improve cancer detection and
diagnosis. The center has developed an AI-powered system
that can detect breast cancer in mammograms with high
accuracy.
Challenges faced while implementing the various forms of digital
technology in healthcare
- Digital health as a rapidly expanding medical field relies
comprehensively on human health data. Conventionally, the
collection of health data is mediated by officially diagnostic
instruments, operated by health professionals in clinical
environments and under strict regulatory conditions.
- Mobile health, telemedicine, AI tech and other wearable
devices with internet connections are becoming the future
choices for collecting patient information.
- Although digital technology has a lot of benefits in the health
sector there are also some disadvantages.
- One major issue is privacy. With digitization comes privacy
issues.
- Data governance is another challenge that govt have.
Although the improvement of technologies lowers its cost
and because of it most of the governments take a step into
digitalization only half of them have privacy policies to
protect the data. Hence it is important that governments set
up policies and standards for data governance.
- Ethical challenges such as user consent is also an issue, users
or patients should know about the collection of data.
Although most applications ask users for this permission, it is
often neglected by users, and almost all users only push the
“I agree” button at first without reading the terms of use of
the applications.
Draft Resolution
Germany:
1. Investments in digital infrastructure particularly in underserved
areas to ensure access to high-speed internet and telehealth
technologies
2. Promotion of guidelines that prioritize patient inclusion and
access addressing issues such as ensuring services for
vulnerable populations, language barriers and digital literacy
3. Implementing task shifting strategies which involve
redistribution of specific healthcare tasks to different cadres of
healthcare workers this can help address healthcare workforce
shortages.
4. Maintenance programs of medical equipment to ensure
medical equipment remains in working conditions and can be
used effectively.
5. Collaboration with international organizations and
manufacturers to donate or provide low-cost medical
equipment to healthcare facilities in need can also prove to be
quite helpful
6. AI algorithms can analyze vast amounts of medical data, this
includes imaging, genomic data and patient records to help
identify patterns and anomalies that might not be obvious to
human healthcare professionals. This helps in the early
detection of diseases.
7. Governments should set up policies and standards for data
governance

Spacing to be 1.15
Equal align
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