Despite the polycrisis confronting our world, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres counsels, we must rebuild trust and restore hope in 2024. In global health there are grounds for optimism, and opportunity too. Some of that lies in the World Health Organization (WHO). When Dr Tedros, WHO’s director-general, assumed helm of WHO in 2017, Anders Nordstrom, a former senior WHO member of staff decried the performance of WHO’s country offices and declared that “radical change is needed.”1 Arguably Tedros is delivering. What happens “on the ground” is central to his WHO Transformation initiative and the empowerment of country representatives. Crucially, Tedros will play a role …
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vaccinated about 5.5 million people. we are among the 3a top countries in the world as far as vaccinations are concerned. we have to end, but here s some very salutary words from sameen siddiqi, a former director of the who about pakistan and the challenges ahead, particularly the dangers given your vaccination rate of future covid crisis. he says, our systems will not be able to deliver, god forbid, if we reach even a bit of what is happening in neighbouring india. does that give you sleepless nights too? well, frankly, pakistan, as far as covid is concerned, pakistan is a great success story. the partial lockdown strategy that prime minister imran khan implemented in pakistan was a great success. only 2.2% mortality rates right now and the whole of covid is less than 6%. this is far better than any other country in the region. fawad chaudhry in islamabad,