【Photo Diary】 (3) Visit to Geneva for 76th World Health Assembly
Published on June 30, 2023
I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my visit to Geneva, Switzerland, from May 21 to 28, 2023, to attend the 76h World Health Assembly－the WHO’s decision-making body－in my capacity as chairman of The Nippon Foundation and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination.
[May 25, Geneva, Switzerland]
With Dr. Tinte Itinteang, Health Minister of Kiribati.
From left, Dr. Palitha Mahipala, WHO Representative in Pakistan; Dr. M.S. Malik, Adviser, Universal Health Coverage, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Pakistan; the author; and Dr. A.B. Khan Achakzai, Director General (Health), Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination.
I presented them with T-shirts for the "Don't Forget Hansen's Disease" campaign that I initiated in 2021 to ensure that leprosy is not overlooked even amid the coronavirus pandemic. It was the same T-shirt that I wore for our meeting.
With Dr. Md. Anowar Hossain Howlader, Secretary of the Health Service Division, Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
With Mr. Zahid Maleque, Health and Family Welfare Minister of Bangladesh.
With Dr. Catherine Marie Lofthus, Secretary General, the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services.
With Ms. Loub Yacout Zaidou, Health Minister of Comoros.
Dr. Carlos Alberto Pinto de Sousa, Angola’s Secretary of State for Public Health.
Meeting with Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo, who formerly served as WHO Regional Director for Africa, for the first time in many years.
May is a pleasant time of year and people were dining outdoors.
