The Big Picture - COVID-19 Crisis: Role of World Health Organisation

The World Health Organisation has hit back at criticism from US president Donald Trump, after he threatened to stop funding the agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump said he was looking into putting “a hold on money sent to the WHO”, accusing the UN agency of being “very China-centric”. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asked not to politicise this virus. On this edition of The Big Picture we analyse the the role of the WHO.

Guests -
1- Prabhu Dayal, Former Ambassador
2- Dr. Mekhala Chandra, Senior Consultant, Sutter Medical Centre, California, USA
3- Urmi Goswami, Assistant Editor, Economic Times

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

Producer - Sagheer Ahmad

[akshatgupta]

When everyonne is complaining about the poor audio quality without thinking the we are not in the normal circumstances, I would like to appreciate the efforts made by RSTV in bringing this magnificient show for us.Thank you.

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COVID-19 Crisis: Role of World Health Organisation

Role of WHO:
monitor the world health situation.
Prevent any outbreak
Director general is from Ethiopia. this is the first time that the director-general of WHO is a politician.

A Pandemic the world hasn't seen in the past 100 years.

Issues: PPEs not available, frontline testing kits.
WHO depends on countries for the information.

Steps to be taken:
1. IPCC- take some systems from it. It gets scientists and experts from across the world to do research. Same can be done with WHO. Get doctors, epidemiologists etc together.
2. Transparency. Systemic cross-checking and assessment.
3. Countries to step up with the contribution and not to withdraw.

Way forward:
1. More funding in the R&D
2. Vaccine for the pandemic.
3. Strengthen multilateralism
4. Reforms within WHO
5. Transparency and proper work flow.
6. Better sharing of information between countries.

[hc-xvbl]

Sir audio quality is very poor please ask pannel members to use ear phones with microphone embedded in it .

[sonaljha]

Jst make the debate audible....we dont want best quality audio...but atleast it should be understandable soo mch rstv for a little more effort needed....thnks...🙂

[gurunathreddy]

Sir audio quality is very poor, please ensure that the panel members have good internet connection, good headphones with mic.
Hoping towards.

Thank you

[avinashrai]

Unfortunately quality is not good owing to certain conditions.If you ask me R.S should stop this programs for time being.R.S tv has a standard and they should not compromise on this at all.

[chetankumarbv]

Hi..thank you for your efforts..but the voice quality seems very bad of the other panelists..would be great if you can work on it...

[vinodxxx]

Very unprofessional audio quality by rajya sabha TV

[bharatiya-akp]

Audio quality must be fixed. Even if u make it understandable it's more than enough.
Thank you.

[jyotishnaseema]

What did WHO not right but all countries should leave pandemic disease.

[SusheelKumarMishraOfficial]

Thanks for your effort wish you are healthy... Kindly ask pannel member to put tv on mute and request to use earphones with mic.... thanks

[jyotishnaseema]

What did WHO not right but all countries should leave pandemic disease. I'm

[arunksharma]

Its good initiative of rstv during lockdown , please improve voice quality

[arvindkumar-zmmy]

good attempt to provide information on WHO but...

[indiafirst.]

End of the day humanity is the only religion, Nature claims back that's all...

[nehasinghal]

In globalized worlds of today, multilateral institutions like WHoO are inevitable. Though there were issues of transparency and neutrality with the WHO leadership, it has tried to curb infodemic by giving timely guidelines later on. Holding of funds by US again proves such institutions are vulnerable politically, hence bodies Ike IPCC are required. At the end, transparency, objectivity and proactiveness at country level in fluid flow of info are norms to deal with such pandemics.

[Rahulpriye]

Honestly, it needed lot of concentration actually in order to listen this debate, seems like video conferencing is not proving to be that effective.
Secondly, going forward, I think our government should also invest more on health infrastructure in nearby future because in future, i think there going to be biological war than nuclear or some other non-conventional one.
Therefore, India must be prepared for that

[zekeyaeger]

although its not right to complain about the quality of feed at this it does show our poor digital and internet setup though. these people who come into the show are the privileged section of our nation. Its sad that some random YouTubers doing Movie trailer reactions with friends (using similar video conferences) have better video and audio quality.