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World Health Organization employees spent more than $192 million on travel last year; an act that violates WHO rules for first-class travel, booking expensive tickets at the last minute, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
First class travel puts WHO's reputation at risk
The trips made by different WHO employees are putting the reputation of the Organization at risk and this would risk the number of partners and donors in favor of it.
This comes just as the WHO is holding its annual conclave in Geneva to ask for help in the fight against the recent outbreak of Ebola in the Congo and other diseases such as polio, malaria and measles.
Even so, the $192 million constitutes a 4% decrease compared to 2017, when the entity promised to punish such abuses after an AP investigation.
The latest investigation reveals that WHO auditors found that many employees lied about the reasons for their trips and took advantage of ambiguities in the rules to book first-class tickets without the trip justifying it.
The WHO could not detect this France Mobile Number List situation earlier, however, the consequences could be very serious since this could directly hit its credibility and make it difficult for it to raise money to fight global diseases, according to Sophie Harman, professor of public health at Queen's. Mary University of London.
«The problem is not so much the amount of money that employees spent on trips, but the way in which it was spent.
"The WHO has to get its house in order if it justifiably wants to go to the international community to ask for money for the fight against Ebola," said Harman.
It is important to note that the WHO has the responsibility of setting guidelines and coordinating international responses to health crises that occur around the world.
Its annual budget, which amounts to approximately two billion dollars, comes mainly from funds contributed by its member countries, which in turn come from taxpayers. The United States is the country that contributes the most money to the WHO.
According to a statement, the WHO stated that “travel is often essential to reach populations in need” and noted that more than half of its travel budget went to hiring outside experts or paying for travel by representatives of developing countries to their strategic meetings.
"When our staff travel they perform a wide variety of tasks such as responding to emergencies, assessing a country's preparedness, launching vaccination campaigns or other types of health measures, training medical personnel and other tasks," said the global agency.
He added that in 2018 measures were implemented to ensure that “travel is necessary, economical, appropriate and efficient.”
What measures will you have to apply subsequently to prevent this situation from occurring again.
First class travel puts WHO's reputation at risk
The trips made by different WHO employees are putting the reputation of the Organization at risk and this would risk the number of partners and donors in favor of it.
This comes just as the WHO is holding its annual conclave in Geneva to ask for help in the fight against the recent outbreak of Ebola in the Congo and other diseases such as polio, malaria and measles.
Even so, the $192 million constitutes a 4% decrease compared to 2017, when the entity promised to punish such abuses after an AP investigation.
The latest investigation reveals that WHO auditors found that many employees lied about the reasons for their trips and took advantage of ambiguities in the rules to book first-class tickets without the trip justifying it.
The WHO could not detect this France Mobile Number List situation earlier, however, the consequences could be very serious since this could directly hit its credibility and make it difficult for it to raise money to fight global diseases, according to Sophie Harman, professor of public health at Queen's. Mary University of London.
«The problem is not so much the amount of money that employees spent on trips, but the way in which it was spent.
"The WHO has to get its house in order if it justifiably wants to go to the international community to ask for money for the fight against Ebola," said Harman.
It is important to note that the WHO has the responsibility of setting guidelines and coordinating international responses to health crises that occur around the world.
Its annual budget, which amounts to approximately two billion dollars, comes mainly from funds contributed by its member countries, which in turn come from taxpayers. The United States is the country that contributes the most money to the WHO.
According to a statement, the WHO stated that “travel is often essential to reach populations in need” and noted that more than half of its travel budget went to hiring outside experts or paying for travel by representatives of developing countries to their strategic meetings.
"When our staff travel they perform a wide variety of tasks such as responding to emergencies, assessing a country's preparedness, launching vaccination campaigns or other types of health measures, training medical personnel and other tasks," said the global agency.
He added that in 2018 measures were implemented to ensure that “travel is necessary, economical, appropriate and efficient.”
What measures will you have to apply subsequently to prevent this situation from occurring again.
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