WHO chief says he saw convergence of global crises in Ukraine
GENEVA (AA) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that a visit to Ukraine made him aware of a convergence of global crises like the war there, the coronavirus pandemic, a worldwide food and energy crisis and migration and climate issues that need solving with “real global leadership.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was asked at a webinar on the COVID-19 pandemic by a journalist about the current focus on Ukraine, which he recently visited for three days, prompting him to issue another call to Russia to stop the war.
There is the energy crisis, the migration crisis, “and there is also the climate crisis,” he said, referring to Ukraine and Russia being major global food producers.
The WHO leader noted that conflicts, wherever they are, mainly affect “children and women and the weak ones,” and that is what his group had seen in Ukraine.
But Tedros said that for everything the WHO is doing, it cannot meet all the needs of people in Ukraine right now.
At least 3,459 civilians have been killed and 3,713 others injured since Russia launched the war on Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to UN estimates. The true toll is feared to be much higher.
More than 5.91 million people have fled to other countries, with some 7.7 million people internally displaced, according to the UN refugee agency.
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