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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, traveled to kyiv to meet with the organization’s staff and evaluate possible formulas to increase assistance to the victims of the war, and to deliver 20 all-terrain ambulances.
“I know the horror that people in Ukraine experience and I want peace to return here and in every corner of the world,” Tedros said in a message posted recently on his Twitter account. , through which he reported his stay in the Ukrainian capital.
In kyiv, he held several meetings to see how to improve WHO aid to that country, to which he himself delivered, on behalf of the organization, a donation of 20 ambulances that can reach places of difficult access, as well as blood generators and refrigerators for hospitals that need it most.
The head of the WHO, who was born in Eritrea, recalled that he knows how Children and adults feel trapped in this conflict because, as a child, they experienced “the smell, sound and devastation of war”. (EFE)