ReutersGENEVA: The World Health Organization chief opened a key meeting addressing the pandemic on Monday by welcoming efforts to strengthen the Geneva-based body through reform.
"We welcome any and all efforts to strengthen this organisation not for its own sake, but the sake of the people we serve," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
He was addressing the annual ministerial session of WHO's 194 member states that resumed on Monday after a short meeting last May as he said that COVID-19 cases approached 50 million with 1.2 million deaths.
"We welcome any and all efforts to strengthen this organisation not for its own sake, but the sake of the people we serve," said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
He was addressing the annual ministerial session of WHO's 194 member states that resumed on Monday after a short meeting last May as he said that COVID-19 cases approached 50 million with 1.2 million deaths.
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