05.09.2017

Dr Tedros' remarks at the Sixty-Seventh WHO Regional Committee for Africa

WHO's new strategic plan

World Health Organisation (WHO) "Let me start by describing what for me was the most compelling moment since I began as Director-General less than 60 days ago. I visited Yemen where I met a mother and her malnourished child. They had travelled for hours to reach the health centre. The mother was begging the medical staff to take care of her child. But when I looked at the mother, I could see that she was skin and bone. She could well die before her child. But she was focused only on her child, not herself. (...) Now, I am sure many of you are wondering how WHO will change in the weeks and months and years ahead, so I would like to start by outlining how I view our work during this transition period." (Photo: Wolisso, Etiopia, Medici con l'Africa Cuamm/flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)