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Saima Wazed to become WHO regional Director for South East Asia
Context:
Recently, Bangladesh's Saima Wazed, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, beat Nepal's Shambhu Prasad Acharya to be nominated as the next World Health Organization (WHO’s) Regional Director for South-East Asia.
About the information:
- The election was held at the 76th session of the Regional Committee for SEARO in New Delhi.
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Regional Committee for South-East Asia (SEARO): seventy-sixth sessions: The Seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia will be held in New Delhi, India, from 30 October to 2 November 2023. |
- The SEARO is one of the six regions of WHO with its headquarters in New Delhi.
- She got 8 votes out of 10, while the Nepal got 2 in its favour.
- India voted in favour of Bangladesh’s candidature namely, Saima Wazed.
- Saima Wazed is going to hold the office of Regional Director for a five-year term and will be eligible for reappointment once.
- Role and Responsibility: Wazed will be responsible for steering public health responses in the region, which is home to a quarter of the global population and has 30 per cent of the global disease burden.
Regional Division of WHO:
- WHO Member States are grouped into six regions. Each region has a regional office which includes;
- Africa
- South America
- South east Asia
- Europe
- Eastern Mediterranean
- Western Pacific
WHO and South East Asia Region:
- South-East Asian Region comprised 11 countries but is home to more than a quarter of the world’s population and a significant burden of disease.
- Countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region are Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste.
- Member countries will advance commitment to continuing efforts to achieve universal health coverage, with a focus on strengthening human resources for health and expanding the availability of essential medicines.
- Continuing effort to strengthen the health workforce has led to a 30.6% increase in the availability of doctors, nurses and midwives in the WHO South-East Asia Region since 2014.
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