2 candidates left in fight for WHO post
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THE race to lead the World Health Organization is down to two candidates after Pakistan’s Dr Sania Nishtar was eliminated from the voting.
The vote, yesterday, left Britain’s Dr David Nabarro and Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, competing to succeed Dr Margaret Chan, who is ending a 10-year tenure.
After the first round, Ghebreyesus had more votes than the other two candidates combined: 95 versus 52 for Nabarro and 38 for Nishtar.
Health ministers, diplomats and other high-level envoys were voting to choose WHO’s next director-general, a post with considerable power in setting medical priorities that affect billions of people and declaring when crises like disease outbreaks evolve into global emergencies.
Tedros pledges to work “tirelessly to fulfill WHO’s promise of universal health care.”
His rival for the post, Nabarro, said he knows “how the kitchen works in the UN” and cited lessons learned from WHO’s mistake-ridden response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Nishtar who has now been eliminated had promised to bring accountability to WHO and “not to cut ribbons but to work with you.”
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