{"id":38007,"date":"2025-12-19T22:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38007"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:07:12","slug":"who-director-general-pays-courtesy-call-on-health-minister-dr-gautam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/who-director-general-pays-courtesy-call-on-health-minister-dr-gautam\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Director-General pays courtesy call on Health Minister Dr Gautam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Dec 19: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Teedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has paid a courtesy call on Minister for Health and Population Dr. Sudha Gautam.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting held in the capital city of India, New Delhi, today, Minister Gautam had presented Nepal&#8217;s status on improvement of mental health service, reproductive health and migrant workers&#8217; health.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister Gautam&#8217;s Secretariat, they had widely discussed about the measures the Government of Nepal has taken so far for bringing reforms in health insurance and drug procurement as well as management system.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Director-General Ghebreyesus lauded the Nepal government&#8217;s higher level of commitment and priorities for health sector improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General assured Nepal of extending continued technical and strategic cooperation on behalf of the WHO towards attaining the goals set and further improving the health system of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Gautam is now in New Delhi to attend the &#8216;WHO Summit on Traditional Medicines&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Dec 19: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Teedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has paid a courtesy call on Minister for Health and Population Dr. Sudha Gautam. During the meeting held in the capital city of India, New Delhi, today, Minister Gautam had presented Nepal&#8217;s status on improvement of mental health service, reproductive health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-foreign-affairs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38010,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38007\/revisions\/38010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}