GENEVA: Pakistan’s candidate to lead the World Health Organization, Dr. Sania Nishtar, has been eliminated after the first round of voting.
Nishtar was among three candidates vying to replace outgoing chief Dr. Margaret Chan.
The two remaining candidates are Britain’s Dr. David Nabarro, a UN veteran who has led past responses to pandemic flu and Ebola and Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health minister.
Tedros was ahead after the first round, winning 95 votes. Nabarro had 52 votes and Nishtar 38. There are 185 countries eligible to vote.
The president of this year’s World Health Assembly opened this afternoon’s proceedings by calling for a minute of silence to remember the victims of the Manchester bombing attack.
As it stands, 185 member states attending WHO’s World Health Assembly are eligible to cast ballots Tuesday afternoon. Nine others are either in arrears on their dues or not represented at the 10-day gathering.
Tedros is a 52-year-old former government minister in Ethiopia and Nabarro, 67, is a physician and longtime UN official from Britain.
Nishtar is a 54-year-old cardiologist and former government minister from Pakistan; and David Nabarro, 67, a physician and longtime UN official from Britain.
Nishtar was among three candidates vying to replace outgoing chief Dr. Margaret Chan.
The two remaining candidates are Britain’s Dr. David Nabarro, a UN veteran who has led past responses to pandemic flu and Ebola and Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health minister.
Tedros was ahead after the first round, winning 95 votes. Nabarro had 52 votes and Nishtar 38. There are 185 countries eligible to vote.
The president of this year’s World Health Assembly opened this afternoon’s proceedings by calling for a minute of silence to remember the victims of the Manchester bombing attack.
As it stands, 185 member states attending WHO’s World Health Assembly are eligible to cast ballots Tuesday afternoon. Nine others are either in arrears on their dues or not represented at the 10-day gathering.
Tedros is a 52-year-old former government minister in Ethiopia and Nabarro, 67, is a physician and longtime UN official from Britain.
Nishtar is a 54-year-old cardiologist and former government minister from Pakistan; and David Nabarro, 67, a physician and longtime UN official from Britain.
