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Saturday, 24 May 2025
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WHO Director-General, Emergencies chief address World Health Assembly on Gaza health crisis
Dear media,
We are sharing video statements from the ongoing 78th World Health Assembly on the Gaza health and humanitarian crisis. They were delivered by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, and Dr Michael Ryan, WHO Deputy Director-General and Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme as part of the DG’s report to the Assembly on the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
They were delivered on 22 May 2025 and are relevant to the current crisis; they may be of use for ongoing news coverage.
Dr Tedros: video [https://who.canto.global/b/IMJBL];
audio [https://who.canto.global/b/IBG17]
Dr Ryan: video [https://who.canto.global/b/G11QK];
audio [https://who.canto.global/b/R5APN]
Related content:
WHO Director-General Report on Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_15-en.pdf], 78th World Health Assembly [https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78/A78_15-en.pdf]WHO statement: Health system at breaking point as hostilities further intensify in Gaza, WHO warns [https://www.emro.who.int/images/stories/Sitrep_59.pdf?ua=1]WHO oPt Emergency Situation Update, 22 May 2025 [https://www.who.int/news/item/22-05-2025-health-system-at-breaking-point-as-hostilities-further-intensify–who-warns]Photos of meeting between Dr Tedros and Dr Abu Ramadan, 24 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland during 78th World Health Assembly https://multimedia.who.int/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=2AOJA4E08RG&PN=1&WS=AssetManagement&FR_=1&W=1920&H=953 [https://multimedia.who.int/CS.aspx?VP3=DamView&VBID=2AOJA4E08RG&PN=1&WS=AssetManagement&FR_=1&W=1920&H=953]
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