Archiv: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus


28.12.2024 - 17:16 [ United Nations ]

‘I saw the blood on the tarmac’: top UN official in Yemen recounts aftermath of Israel airstrike on civilian airport

What was most frightening about that air strike wasn‘t the effect on us, it was that it began as a civilian airliner from Yemenia Airways, carrying hundreds of Yemenis, was about to land. In fact, the plane was taxiing when the air traffic control was destroyed.

Fortunately, that plane was able to land safely, and the passengers were able to disembark but it could have been far, far worse.

The airport is civilian infrastructure. It is where all the international humanitarian aid workers who work in the north of the country enter and leave, so if the airport is disabled it will paralyze humanitarian operations.

It‘s also the airport by which thousands of Yemenis who are unable to get advanced healthcare in the country leave for health facilities in Jordan, Cairo or Mumbai. So, it is an absolute vital humanitarian location. It is essential that all parties to the conflict scrupulously observe international humanitarian law.”

28.12.2024 - 14:04 [ Associated Press ]

Israeli airstrikes hit a Yemen airport as a jet with hundreds onboard was landing, UN official says

Immediately after the airstrikes, Harneis said, U.N. security officials moved the delegation out of the VIP building and into five armored cars where they waited for approximately 40 minutes to ascertain what happened and help the injured crew member.

He was taken to a hospital in Sanaa and underwent four hours of surgery while the rest of the delegation spent the night in a U.N. compound, Harneis said. The U.N. plane with Tedros and the U.N. team, including the injured crew member, was able to depart for Jordan on Friday afternoon – without an operating control tower.

The United Nations said the injured crew member was taken to a hospital in Jordan, and Tedros was heading back to Geneva, where WHO is based,

28.12.2024 - 14:01 [ World Health Organization ]

Statement by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General on the attack on the Sana‘a airport, Yemen

(December 26, 2024)

As we were about to board our flight from Sana’a, about three hours ago (around 5 pm local time), the airport came under aerial bombardment. One of our plane’s crew members was injured. At least two people were reported killed at the airport.

The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged. We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave.

26.12.2024 - 18:15 [ United Nations ]

WHO chief unharmed following during Israeli airstrike at Yemen airport

Tedros was in Yemen to negotiation the release of UN staffers who have been held hostage by the Houthi movement for several months, and assess the health and humanitarian situation in the country.

With the mission concluded, explained the WHO chief, he and his team were about to board their flight out of the country, when the airport came under attack. As well as two reported deaths, a member of his plane’s crew was injured.

The air traffic control tower and the departure lounge were both damaged. Tedros and his team were just metres away but are unharmed.

25.10.2024 - 14:15 [ BastillePost.com ]

Conflict forces closure of one-third health facilities in Lebanon

In the past year, Lebanese medical and health institutions have been attacked 53 times, with 99 patients and staff members killed, according to the WHO.

And due to the deterioration of water and sanitation conditions, a case of cholera was reported in northern Lebanon.

The WHO urged relevant parties to take immediate action to protect Lebanon‘s medical system.

04.05.2024 - 06:50 [ Tagesschau.de ]

WHO warnt vor „Blutbad“ in Rafah

Israels Regierungschef Benjamin Netanyahu hatte kürzlich erklärt, die israelische Armee werde ungeachtet der internationalen Kritik und unabhängig von einer möglichen Einigung auf ein Abkommen über eine Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen ihre Pläne für eine Bodenoffensive in Rafah umsetzen.

18.03.2024 - 16:26 [ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization / Twitter ]

Hospitals should never be battlegrounds. We are terribly worried about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern #Gaza, which is endangering health workers, patients and civilians. The hospital has only recently restored minimal health services. Any hostilities or militarization of the facility jeopardize health services, access for ambulances, and delivery of life-saving supplies. Hospitals must be protected. Ceasefire!

22.02.2024 - 21:50 [ United Nations ]

Gaza has become a ‘death zone’, warns UN health chief

“Gaza has become a death zone,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General told correspondents at a press briefing in Geneva.

“Much of the territory has been destroyed. More than 29,000 people are dead; many more are missing, presumed dead; and many, many more are injured,” he added.

Across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, severe malnutrition has shot up dramatically since the start of the war on 7 October, from under one per cent of the population, to over 15 per cent in some areas.

“This figure will rise the longer the war goes on and supplies [are] interrupted,” Tedros said, expressing deep concern that agencies such as the World Food Programme (WFP) are unable to access the north.

18.12.2023 - 16:32 [ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization / Twitter ]

.@WHO is appalled by the effective destruction of Kamal Adwan hospital in northern #Gaza over the last several days, rendering it non-functional and resulting in the death of at least 8 patients. Many health workers were reportedly detained, and WHO and partners are urgently seeking information on their status.

We learned that many patients had to self-evacuate at great risk to their health and safety, with ambulances unable to reach the facility. Of the deceased patients, several died due to lack of adequate health care, including a 9-year-old child.

We are extremely concerned for the well-being of the internally displaced people who are reportedly sheltering in the hospital building.

Gaza’s health system was already on its knees, and the loss of another even minimally functioning hospital is a severe blow.

Attacks on hospitals, health personnel and patients must end. Ceasefire NOW.

28.11.2023 - 07:55 [ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization / Twitter ]

In the past days, the sound of war has quieted, giving millions of children and adults the chance to look to the sky without fear of rockets streaking their way. I add my support for this desperately needed respite in the conflict in #Gaza to continue.

(15 hours ago)

12.11.2023 - 04:29 [ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization / Twitter ]

Deeply worrisome and frightening: @WHO has lost contact with its focal points in Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza, amid horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated attacks. There are reports that some of those who fled the hospital have been shot at, wounded, or killed. The latest reports say the hospital was surrounded by tanks.

(2 hours ago)

WHO is gravely concerned about the safety of health workers, hundreds of sick and injured patients, including babies on life support, and displaced people who remain inside the hospital.

WHO again calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as the only way to save lives and reduce the horrific levels of suffering.

04.11.2023 - 00:09 [ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization / Twitter ]

Utterly shocked by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza, leading to deaths, injuries and damage. We reiterate: patients, health workers, facilities, and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always. Ceasefire NOW. #NotATarget

(5 hours ago)

18.10.2023 - 14:22 [ United Nations ]

Israel-Gaza: UN chief urges ceasefire, region ‘on the precipice’

Trucks carrying lifesaving aid remained lined up at the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. In a post on social platform X on Wednesday, UN World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus deplored that WHO supplies have been “stuck” at the border for four days.

“Every second we wait to get medical aid in, we lose lives,” he said.

Relentless diplomatic efforts by senior UN officials in favour of humanitarian access were set to continue, with the organization’s relief chief Martin Griffiths on the ground in Cairo, where he will be joined by Secretary-General Guterres on Thursday.

18.10.2023 - 14:15 [ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization / Twitter ]

The situation in #Gaza is spiralling out of control. Every second we wait to get medical aid in, we lose lives. For 4 days @WHO supplies have been stuck at the border.

We need immediate access to start delivering life-saving supplies.

We need violence on all sides to stop.

18.10.2023 - 14:11 [ The Spectator Index / Twitter ]

BREAKING: World Health Organization says humanitarian aid has been held up at the Egyptian side of Rafah border crossing for four days

26.12.2021 - 05:32 [ BBC ]

WHO rejects ‘incorrect’ deadly booster social media claims

(22.12.2021)

However, he stumbles on his words at the end, which makes it appear as though he is suggesting booster jabs “kill children”.

A WHO spokesperson told the BBC that Dr Ghebreyesus “got stuck on the first syllable ‘chil’ and it came out sounding like ‘cil/kil‘.

“He repeated the same syllable, with it coming out ‘cil-children’. Any other interpretation of this is 100% incorrect.”

14.07.2021 - 06:54 [ theGuardian.com ]

Pfizer pushes for US booster shots as WHO says greed is driving vaccine disparities

Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the chief WHO scientist, said: “At this point … there is no scientific evidence to suggest that boosters are definitely needed.”

Swaminathan said the WHO would make recommendations on booster shots “based on the science and data, not on individual companies declaring that the vaccines should now be administered as a booster dose”.

14.07.2021 - 06:48 [ Blick.ch ]

Dritte Auffrischungsimpfung gilt als fragwürdig: WHO wirft Impfstoff-Herstellern Gier vor

Der US-Pharmakonzern Pfizer hat am Montag eine Genehmigung für dritten Dosen seines Covid-19-Impfstoffs beantragt. Das erntete scharfe Kritik von der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO). Deren Vorsitzender Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (56) warf dem Pharmamulti Gier vor. Impfstoff-Hersteller sollten weniger wohlhabende Länder bevorzugen, statt fragwürdige Auffrischungsimpfungen in reichen, bereits gut durchgeimpften Ländern anzustreben.

30.03.2021 - 23:04 [ ORF.at ]

WHO-Chef will Laborthese weiter untersuchen

Die Möglichkeit einer absichtlichen Freisetzung von SARS-CoV-2 wurde nicht untersucht.

30.03.2021 - 05:04 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

‚No one recovers until everyone recovers‘: World needs a post-Covid treaty to put nationalism aside and ensure virus stays defeated, 23 heads of state including Johnson, Merkel and Macron declare in open letter

Writing for newspapers across the world – including The Daily Telegraph – the leaders also urged a new era of solidarity in the face of ‚the biggest challenge to the global community since the 1940s‘.

The group of 24 world leaders – and the head of the World Health Organisation Dr Tedros Adhanom – called for a new international accord similar to those agreed after the war which saw countries work together for the common good.

03.01.2021 - 07:27 [ Korea Broadcasting System ]

Internationales WHO-Chef fordert gerechte Verteilung von Corona-Impfstoff

Er betonte, dass hierfür COVAX Facility, eine von der WHO geführte Initiative für den gemeinsamen Impfstoffkauf und die -verteilung, vier Milliarden Dollar benötige. Er bat die internationale Gemeinschaft um Unterstützung.

COVAX hatte am 18. Dezember mitgeteilt, fast zwei Milliarden Dosen von Corona-Impfstoffen sichergestellt zu haben.

11.04.2020 - 19:26 [ theHill.com ]

Cuomo joins criticism of WHO response: ‚Where were the warning signs?‘

“Where were the warning signs? Who should have blown the whistle?“ Cuomo asked at a daily briefing. “The president has asked this question, and I think he’s right. The president’s answer is the World Health Organization should’ve been blowing the whistle.”

Cuomo said that as a governor he doesn’t deal with much foreign policy, so he “doesn’t know if that’s right or wrong, but I know the question is right and sometimes the question is more important than the answer.”

14.03.2020 - 19:43 [ Michel Chossudovsky / Global Research ]

COVID-19 Coronavirus “Fake” Pandemic: Timeline and Analysis

(08.03.2020)

In the Event 201 Simulation of a Coronavirus Pandemic, a 15% collapse of financial markets had been “simulated”.

It was not “predicted” according to the organizers and sponsors of the event.

Private sector initiative. Participation of corporate execs, foundations, financial institutions, Banks, Big Pharma, CIA, CDC, No health officials on behalf of national governments or the WHO. The simulation exercise was held on the same day as the opening of the CISM World Militaty Sports Games in Wuhan.

14.03.2020 - 18:31 [ theMonitor.com ]

WHO chief: Europe now center of virus pandemic

The head of the World Health Organization says Europe, not China, is now the epicenter of the world’s coronavirus pandemic.

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva that “more cases are now being reported every day than were reported in China at the height of its epidemic.”