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World Health Meeting Opens In Geneva

Over 2,000 delegates from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, as the World Health Assembly meeting opens to deliberate on a dozen … Continue reading World Health Meeting Opens In Geneva


Child receiving the polio vaccine

Over 2,000 delegates from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, as the World Health Assembly meeting opens to deliberate on a dozen of issues including climate change and health, drug resistance and how to reduce the impact of non-communicable diseases.

As the meeting opens, the World Health Organisation’s Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, voiced her deep concern about worldwide increase in childhood obesity, with numbers climbing fastest in developing countries.

At the end of the five-day meeting the supreme decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO) will take its stand on the issues.

Delegates from Africa joined others to make up the 194 WHO member countries attending the 67th world health meeting where decisions that promote health and ease the burden of global diseases are taken.

Like his counterparts from other countries, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr Onyebuchi Chukwu, said Nigeria had made tangible efforts at addressing health issues.

The delegates will hold discussion that will provide workable resolutions to health challenges around the world.