New Delhi: Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and currently Secretary in Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Rajesh Bhushan has been appointed the chairperson of the crucial ‘Committee B’ of the 75th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO). The committee will review the global body’s budget in the midst of pandemic response and preparedness.

“Rajesh Bhushan from India has been appointed as the Chairperson of Committee B of the 75th World Health Assembly,” the WHO said in a tweet. Convened by 194 member states, the annual WHO assembly is being held from May 22 to 28 in Geneva, Switzerland. Each year, the World Health Assembly (WHA) reviews a long list of health challenges and responses.

The WHA functions through two types of committees - Committee A and Committee B. The Committee B mainly discusses administrative and financial matters of the WHA, while the Committee A meets to debate technical and health matters. The Committee B will discuss and prepare a report this year on important issues that includes health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem and in the occupied Syrian Golan, budget for WHO for year 2022-2023. /BI/