WHO delegation in Kurdistan to set up medicine plants

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: An economic delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) will arrive early next week in Iraq’s Kurdistan region to help establish two medicine factories in the region. “The delegation, which comprises three engineers, is expected to arrive in Arbil city on Sunday (11/1),” a member of the region’s investment authority, Taha Zanka, told IraqiNews.com news agency. The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations. SS (P)/SR 1