The World Health Organization reversed its decision to honor Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador, capping off yet another episode of UN hypocrisy.
Seventeen countries around the world are recognized by WHO as Type 1 qualified foreign medical teams that can deploy to other countries and aid in medical disaster relief, but the IDF’s field hospital is the only Type 3 team, which provides inpatient referral surgical care.
The United Nations’ bias against Israel shows the organization “has lost credibility, lost common sense, and more than anything lost its most important asset – its integrity,” former Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid said in a speech in which he also called on the world’s democracies to take a stand.
A recent United Nations resolution singling out Israel as the world’s only violator of global health rights reveals how the international body is “completely disconnected from reality,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN said on Thursday.
Despite ongoing security threats and regional instability, Israelis can expect to live well into their 80s, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) newly released global report on life expectancy.
The municipality of Jerusalem was inducted as an official member in a program of the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) for the Israeli capital’s work in support of senior citizens.