What is WHO? : Full Form of WHO

What is WHO? and Its Full Form

Introduction

Friends,as we know that “Health is wealth”  no matter what wealth and comforts we get in the world, if our health is not good then everything is useless. That is why it is very important for every human being in the world to be healthy. People get so busy to meet their daily needs that they are not able to take proper care of their health.

WHO does a lot of work for such people. This organization goes to all small and big areas and makes people aware to avoid many deadly diseases. It provides aid to all countries where it is needed. So let's know what is WHO and what is the full form WHO.

What is WHO? and Its Full Form 

The full form of WHO is World Health Organization. It was established by the Constitution on 7 April 1948, which is also celebrated as World Health Day. Its main headquarters is located in Geneva, Switzerland.

Talking about the member in WHO, there are 194 countries of the world who are members, in which our country India is also included and the headquarters of WHO in India is in New Delhi. Talking about the director-general of WHO, at this time there is Dr Tedros Adhanom and the deputy director-general who is the recently formed Indian Dr. Soumya Swaminathan.

At present, more than 7 thousand employees work in 150 countries in WHO. The WHO has made many such epidemic vaccines and saved us from those diseases, such as specifically eradicating smallpox, near-elimination of polio, and also developed an Ebola vaccine.

Its current priorities include communicable diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and tuberculosis; non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and cancer; Healthy diet, nutrition and food security. 

Main Functions of WHO

Now we know what is the main work of WHO. The main job of WHO is to provide health facilities to all the people of the world. It is the responsibility of WHO to reach the highest level of health of all the people of the world and this is its goal.

WHO keeps giving guidelines to various countries from time to time, as if talking about, WHO has issued a guideline, that children who are less than one year old, those children who are less than one year old, should be kept away from mobile screen. And if the child is 5 years old, then he should be in front of the screen of any electronic device for only one hour in a day.

Many such guidelines w.h.o keep giving us from time to time, it is all the work of WHO that they keep giving similar guidelines to all the different countries of our world so that our health can become the best.

Conclusion

Friends,in today's article we knew that what is WHO, what is the full form of WHO and the main functions of WHO, we have understood all these in great detail in today's post. If you liked this article, then do let us know by commenting. And also share this article with your friends.