President Museveni meets WHO Director-General
CAPTION: President Museveni (R) with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) at State Lodge, Nakasero on Tuesday August 19th, 2025. (PPU Photo).
By Our reporter
NAKASERO – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has this morning held talks with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) at State Lodge, Nakasero.
“The discussions focused on strengthening Uganda’s health sector through sustainable financing, local pharmaceutical manufacturing and public health insurance to ensure long-term resilience,” heads the press statement issued by Faruk Kirunda, Deputy President Spokesperson Tuesday 19th, 2025.
Dr Tedros was elected WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017.
He became the first WHO Director-General elected from among multiple candidates by the World Health Assembly, and was the first person from the WHO African Region to head the world’s leading public health agency.
Meanwhile in his recent public address, Dr Tedros made an emotional appeal to Israel to end its 80-day blockade of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid into Gaza, asking “if you can have mercy?” and adding: “the war is hurting Israel, and it will not bring a lasting solution.”
Fighting back tears, the Director General said, “People are starving; 81% of Gazans are under constant displacement orders, and the hospitals are on their knees.
“I can feel how people in Gaza would feel. I can visualize it. I can hear the sounds. It’s really wrong to weaponize food, to weaponize medical supplies,” said the DG, noting he also suffers from PTSD due to his experiences in war-torn Ethiopia as a child.
