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World Health Organization

In April 1945, a conference was held in San-Francisco, in which Brazil and China proposed that an international health organization should be established. So, World health organization formally came into existence on 7th April in 1948. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesis is the present Director-General of WHO, who was appointed on 1st July 2017. The country of nationality of Tedros Adhanom is Ethiopia. Due to this, the World health day is being celebrated on 7th April every year. Every year on 7th April a specific aspect of public health is chosen for that year. For example, in 2015 it was The theme was "Food Safety", In 2016 it was "Diabetes" and in 2017 it was "Depression". The theme for 2018 is " Health for all", for 2019 is "Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere". The theme for 2020 is" Support Nurses and Midwives". It is the context of the pandemic situation the world is facing i.e. Coronavirus (C