They played a major role in the fight against "Covid".
Notable women leave the World Health Organization
Indian doctor Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientific officer of the World Health Organization, will leave the organization.
archival
Brazilian Mariangela Simão, Assistant Director-General for Access to Medicines and Health Products, is leaving WHO.
archival
Former French health minister and presidential envoy for multilateral affairs Agnes Buzyn will leave the organization.
A.F.B
Former UK Minister Jane Ellison is Executive Director of Foreign Affairs and Governance.
archival
picture
Two senior officials of the World Health Organization in combating the "Covid-19" pandemic will leave their posts next week, according to a letter issued by the Director-General of the organization, which was seen by "Agence France Presse" the day before yesterday.
The two officials who will step down are the Indian doctor Soumya Swaminathan, the scientific chief of the World Health Organization, and the Brazilian Mariangela Simao, assistant director-general for access to medicines and health products.
Swaminathan and Simao were among the top UN health agency officials who have led global efforts to coordinate the response to the pandemic.
Also, the former French Minister of Health and Presidential Envoy for Multilateral Affairs, Agnes Buzyn, and former British Minister Jane Ellison, Executive Director of Foreign Affairs and Governance, will leave the organization.
The departure of the four women was announced in a letter sent by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to their colleagues, as part of the amendments he is making to his team after his re-election to a second five-year term in May.
Tedros said in his message, "I want to express my appreciation and respect to the members of my leadership team, whose appointment expires on November 30."
No new names have been announced yet.
• The departure of the four women was announced in a letter sent to their colleagues by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as part of the reshuffling of his team following his re-election to a second five-year term in May.
Follow our latest local and sports news and the latest political and economic developments via Google news