Andrew Bridgen MP debate on objections to signing up to treaties that would empower the WHO to impose legally binding directives on member states...
overriding UK sovereignty.
The WHO is domiciled in Geneva and so has a special status. Its employees are exempt from tax and they and their families all have diplomatic immunity. It is indeed a supranational body, unelected and unaccountable.
It has the legislative and supreme decision-making body; World Health Assembly (WHA), which meets yearly in Geneva. The current chairperson of the WHA is Harsh Vardhan. In 2021, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) issued a statement objecting to Vardhan, who was endorsing Coronil a herbal product that was being made in India. The IMA questioned the ethics of the Health Minster at the time Vardhan, in the release of fabricated and unscientific product onto the people of India. He has since gone on to become the chairperson of the WHA.[media=https://youtu.be/eh30cThhVm0]
The WHO is domiciled in Geneva and so has a special status. Its employees are exempt from tax and they and their families all have diplomatic immunity. It is indeed a supranational body, unelected and unaccountable.
It has the legislative and supreme decision-making body; World Health Assembly (WHA), which meets yearly in Geneva. The current chairperson of the WHA is Harsh Vardhan. In 2021, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) issued a statement objecting to Vardhan, who was endorsing Coronil a herbal product that was being made in India. The IMA questioned the ethics of the Health Minster at the time Vardhan, in the release of fabricated and unscientific product onto the people of India. He has since gone on to become the chairperson of the WHA.[media=https://youtu.be/eh30cThhVm0]
