WHO calls for protecting health sector from targeting

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has expressed the organisation’s deep concern over the increasing number of attacks on the health facilitiesin the Gaza Strip, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon and other countries in the region, calling for the need for active protection of the health sector and health care, and not to be targeted under international humanitarian law in all regions.

He added in a speech via video conference during the meetings of the 71st session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean that the organisation is a key partner in all these conflicts by dealing with more patients and those injured with trauma. (QNA)