For the first time, WHO is caught up in a cold war between China and the US Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has taken over as chair of the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board at a very difficult time.
The whole world has been shaken up by the covid-19 crisis. With limited powers, it would be a difficult task for Vardhan to help humanity through WHO.
This, at a time when questions have been raised on the role of this organisation during the outbreak. US President Donald Trump and some other leaders from the West are blaming China for deliberately pushing the world into the pandemic.
They also alleged that WHO could neither stop Beijing nor hold it responsible. Trump even threatened to permanently stop funding WHO, and