Dr. Lee Jong-wook, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) is still in the Cantonal Hospital in Geneva. He had a surgery to remove a blot clot in his brain.
However, WHO’s policy making body, World Health Assembly will continue its work without its chief’s presence. It will discuss to strengthen pandemic-influenza preparedness, infant child nutrition, HIV/AIDS, polio eradication, anemia, smallpox eradication; prevention of curable blindness will be discussed in the conference. The WHO Framework Convention on tobacco control, intellectual property rights, and WHO’s work program for the period 2006-2015, are the other points that will feature in the assembly.
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