REMINDER: Virtual Press Conference on global health issues and update on the earthquake in T ürkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic, 3 March at 15.00 CET

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Friday, 3 March 2023

REMINDER MEDIA ADVISORY

Virtual Press Conference on Global Health Issues

When: Friday, 3 March 2023, at 15h00 CET

Subject: Global health issues and update on the earthquake in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will brief the press about his mission to the earthquake-affected countries. On March 1, he went to north-west Syria following the devastating earthquakes that hit northern Syria and southern Türkiye in February. Dr Tedros is the first UN principal to enter north-west Syria since the beginning of the conflict 12 years ago. Dr Tedros met with local authorities, partners and listened to the populations affected by the earthquake and long years of instability and saw first-hand the immense suffering of the Syrian population.

In late February, Dr Tedros visited Aleppo, Syria to meet with affected people and officials. He also visited Türkiye and met the Turkish Minister of Health, health workers and populations affected by the earthquake.

Dr Tedros will be joined by other WHO experts to answer your questions on global health matters.

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Note to journalists:

Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet). Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed. When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room.

WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption. The event is also broadcast on WHO social media channels and you can follow it there.

To ask a question, please click "raise hand" and this will enter you into the queue for questions (it can be found under the tab: participants).

Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer. Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we can incorporate them into the Q&A session.

For translation during the press conference, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation", depending on which version of Zoom you use.

Due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone.

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