New Delhi: The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus and Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth will be among the foreign guests to participate in the inauguration of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine (GCTM) in Jamnagar on 19 April.
The WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ghebreyesus, will be on a three-day visit to Gujarat starting Monday, during which he would take part in a few events along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials said. On Wednesday, Ghebreyesus will be in Gandhinagar, where PM Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Global AYUSH Investment and Innovation Summit.
It is to be noted India has objected to the methodology used by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for estimating the deaths caused by coronavirus disease in the country. The Ministry of health and family welfare said in a statement that the same mathematical model cannot be used to calculate the Covid mortalities for a large country like India, geographically and population-wise, and for other countries with a smaller population.
The statement was in response to a New York Times article titled ‘India Is Stalling WHO’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public’ dated 16 April. According to the report, the UN health agency has estimated a total of about 15 million deaths related to the virus by the end of 2021, more than double the official figures reported by countries individually. The report claimed the WHO estimate will show India’s death toll is at least four million, almost eight times the official numbers.