The first in-person WHO Health Assembly since the beginning of the pandemic kicked off in Geneva, Sunday. Uhuru Kenyatta, whose country is one of the 34 members of the executive board, urged purchasing organizations to prioritize procurement of locally manufactured health products. The president of Kenya praised World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for his leadership during one of the WHO's "most challenging periods" amid the coronavirus pandemic. Uhuru Kenyatta, whose country is on the WHO executive board, spoke at Geneva's first in-person Health Assembly since the start of the COVID-19 global crisis. Raising the issue once again, Kenyatta told the assembly no country was "immune" to the impact of the virus and no nation "however well resourced, can do this alone."

Source: Ethiopian News May 22, 2022 16:18 UTC