The Role of World Health Organization in Dealing with Covid-19: A Study in view of international stances

Abstract

 After the outbreak of a serious epidemic disease that has widely spread in the world since the end of 2019 and turned into a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has taken the initiative to take steps and stances necessitated by its functional and international responsibility being the global organization responsible for such a task.

Actually, the actions of the international organization were not without criticism and skepticism concerning the approach and method of dealing with the pandemic, This, perhaps, could be attributed to a global precedent dating back to 2009, whereby WHO had been criticized when the swine flu virus turned into a pandemic according to the organization's viewpoint, although it was not that dangerous to attain the level of being a pandemic.

Additionally, some people believed that the WHO was not neutral in its dealing with the major countries related to the causes that led to the disease, as some accused it of being biased towards one country without another. This in itself calls into question its credibility as a specialized global organization