 very good morning so what you are seeing is a building which controls the global health it is none other than World Health Organization so you are seeing the World Health Organization which is located in Geneva which is in Switzerland okay so let's learn something about World Health Organization so you know United Nations which is formed immediately after the Second World War in 1945 so this world World Health Organization it is a agency of United Nations but it is very autonomous body the World Health Organization is autonomous body which is formed in 1948 April 7 actually United Nations formed in 1945 but World Health Organization which is formed in 1948 April 7 so as I told you earlier its headquarters in Geneva Switzerland so which controls the world health literally it controls world health as it has a significant role in every country's health situations so in recent times we are seeing the corona pandemic and every day in newspapers we come across the World World Health Organization and its suggestions for every country its comments regarding the outbreak and its preventive measures regarding the vaccine and some other disputes which is with America or China so it has a significant role and it there should be a significant role from the WHO on every country's health matters so its role is directing and coordinating the health matters in public health worldwide so this World Health Organization it has two components one is the World Health Assembly which is also in a parliament so every country sent one member in this parliament because it is a representative of that country so almost 194 members will be there which are the delegates of every country so each country will send one member to the World Health Assembly okay and this health assembly appoints one director general and his tenure is five years and the current director general of WHO is Dr. Ted Rose Adhanom was appointed in 1st July of 2017 and the next person will take over on 1st July of 2022 so the director general period is always five years the current director general of this health assembly is Ted Rose Adhanom is from Ethiopia and our country has a deputy director general for the first time she was also appointed in the same date as a reputatory director general of WHO Dr. Saumya Dr. Saumya Swamindathan she was a part of ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research now she is taking charge of deputy director general of WHO so that is happening first time an Indian member is becoming a deputy director general of World Health Organization so this is somewhat like a parliament so this is World Health Assembly the parliament of World Health Organization this will be shared by the director general and there'll be members from 194 countries and these meetings will take the health decisions of many countries and the common decision of World Health so other than the health assembly the second component of WHO is executive board so the executive board consists of only 34 members compared to the parliament which has 194 members they are being selected for a term of three years but the parliament the tenure is five years but the executive board the 34 members will be re-elected every three years and they take the core decision of WHO so you can see this is executive board which has very less members compared to the parliament okay so the parliament has 194 members whereas the executive board has just 34 members they will be re-elected every and the last component is secretariat so it is like the functioning the main functioning part of day-to-day functioning part of World Health Organization which has almost 8,000 health and other experts and other supporting staffs so which is the implementing part so the decision will be taken by the parliament and the executive board executive assembly and it will be implemented through these people that is secretariat almost 8,000 staffs are working in the secretariat which has six regional offices so the six regional offices it is the allocation of work or the dissemination of the work throughout the world through these regional subcenters so each part of the world is handled by these regional subcenters so it is widely distributed along the globe so we'll see in the African region it is located in Congo the United States in Washington the Southeast Asian region which is in New Delhi India and the European region which is in Copenhagen Denmark and the Eastern Mediterranean region the office is located in Egypt Cairo and the western Pacific region which is located in Manila Philippines African region is located in Brassville in Congo so these are the regional headquarters which directs the WHO World Health Organization's implementation the work implementation through the staffs which is located in regional subcenters so I repeat the six regional offices in African region it is in Brassville in Congo in the USA that is in American region which is in Washington USA Southeast Asian region which is in our country New Delhi in European region which is in Copenhagen Denmark in Eastern Mediterranean region which is in Egypt Cairo and the western Pacific region which is in Manila that is in Philippines so what they do is WHO's basic works prevention and control of specific diseases like you know you're controlling corona disease with the help of WHO and they develop comprehensive health services for each country and they stress on family health environmental health biomedical research health statistics because you get the official data or reliable data only from the World Health Organization regarding the health matters and the literature assembling and information cooperation with other organization to improve the health of people so these are the World Health Organization's work as we all know we are going through the corona pandemic the nurses and midwives are doing a great job in helping people to come out of coronavirus or the COVID-19 disease so the World Health World Health Organization this year dedicated the theme of World Health Day as support nurses and midwives because of their immense support for the people for recovering from the COVID-19 disease so I just recap the World Health Organization which was started in April 7 1948 so its main goal is to coordinate the health activities around the globe which has three parts basically one is the Parliament or General Health Assembly which has 194 members then the 34 members of Executive Board and 8,000 members of Secret Trade so which has six regional sub offices around the globe and so that's all about World Health Organization so the World Health Day is April 7 this year is dedicated to the nurses and midwives thank you