We do not have power to compel countries to obey regulations – WHO Official

The Team Leader for the World Health Organization in Eastern and Southern Africa, Dr. Ngoy Nsenga, has said the worldwide wellbeing organization has no capacity to force nations to hold fast to guidelines. 

Mr Nsenga revealed this during a video chat meeting sorted out by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (OCHA ROSEA) in a joint effort with the WHO. 

The gathering, focused on comprehension the coronavirus and the job of the media in containing the pandemic, hung on Tuesday morning. 

The members included more than 50 columnists from Africa including POLITICS NIGERIA's journalist. 

During the Question and Answer meeting, a Kenyan columnist, nonetheless, inquired as to whether the WHO upholds its guidelines on part states who concealed the right figures recorded from Coronavirus. 

Mr Nsenga, in his reaction, said that the association is subsidized by nations over the world and as such can't compel the guidelines on the nations. 

"We are the secretary of the part states and they give us cash. The International guidelines state this is the thing that has been conceded to however when you take a gander at the associations after, it is extremely far. You will discover nations saying they have reservations on this, on that." 

He noticed that most occasions, the nations have no reason for their reservations when probed."When they make global guidelines, they give them the option to state: "WHO, we don't need you to blend in our business. On the off chance that we flounder, we vacillate. We are sovereign. This is our power." 

He included: "In the worldwide guidelines, WHO has no capacity to successfully do any nation that doesn't consent. That is the appalling reality." 

The authority likewise instructed the columnists to ignore bits of gossip regarding any fix or immunization delivered to battle Covid-19. 

Mr Nsenga said the greater part of the medications suggested are as yet experiencing the clinical preliminaries and none has been guaranteed by the WHO.