German Health Minister Jens Spahn calls for WHO reform

Fabienne Kinzelmann, Geneva

The World Health Organization (WHO) did not cut a good figure in the Corona crisis. The German Minister of Health Jens Spahn (41) also criticizes the Geneva-based UN agency as unable to respond appropriately to a pandemic.

“It doesn’t work the way it is now,” said Spahn at an event organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Global Health Center on Wednesday in Geneva. “We all have high expectations of what WHO should do. But when it comes to funding, we have differences, ”he said about the organizational structure of the WHO and the more than 190 member states.