New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) Saima Wazed, daughter of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday assumed cost as regional director of World Well being Group’s Southeast Asia area.
Wazed is the primary from Bangladesh and the second girl to carry this workplace.
She was nominated to guide the area by member nations of WHO Southeast Asia on the regional committee session on November 1, 2023 right here and appointed by the WHO government board on January 23 in Geneva.
Wazed will direct worldwide well being work in 11 nations with over 2 billion folks.
Outlining her imaginative and prescient, Wazed mentioned her purpose is to strengthen members states and WHO to deal with well being gaps within the context of present realities and challenges; allow member states to plan and implement revolutionary native options for equitable and resilient well being system; and importantly, empower deprived and weak teams.
At her acceptance speech on the government board in Geneva, Wazed mentioned her topmost priorities embody a robust deal with psychological well being and well-being, a long-neglected space; selling well being fairness together with via devising and implementing particular interventions for girls and kids with a structured life-course method; and harnessing expertise for improvements throughout the completely different spheres of public well being.
Selling common well being protection with a deal with strengthening well being techniques based mostly on a major well being care method; emergency response and pandemic preparedness to encourage nations have a whole-of-society and multi-level pandemic preparedness planning linked to well being system strengthening; and fostering and enhancing collaboration and partnerships on the regional and multi-sectoral degree to deal with all determinants of well being are amongst her priorities.
Different priorities embody monitoring and progress reporting to tell and enhance methods and enhance decision-making with the deal with weak inhabitants such because the indigenous peoples, refugees and migrant populations displaced by battle, financial and environmental disaster.
Wazed can be prioritizing well being sector resilience to local weather and environmental change and a centered method to the distinctive wants of the deprived and weak teams in well being infrastructure planning, to actually depart nobody behind.
