New Delhi: India likely to move to a leadership role post the annual meeting of World Health Organization next month, HT reported.
“The appointment of India’s nominee as chairperson of the WHO’s executive board will come at a time the world and the United Nations agency is struggling to stop the highly contagious Sars-Cov-2 pathogen from spreading.” sources told Hindustan Times.
India will assume the lead position on 22 May at the executive board’s first meeting, replacing Japan which will finish its term of one year in May.
Last year it was decided that the chairperson’s role will be given to India, when the global health body’s South East Asia group proposed New Delhi to the executive board for a three-year long term.
